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Web sites will Go Pink during the month of October to bring attention to Breast Cancer Awareness Month, get people talking about breast cancer, and raise money for research. But to be clear, raising money isn’t the primary purpose of this web event. The hope is that you turn your site pink (in whatever way works for your site), educate yourself about the multiple issues related to Breast Cancer, then take that knowledge and tell someone else what you’ve learned.

Posts Tagged ‘vaccine’

HER2-targeted Vaccine Shows Promise in Mice

While only tested on mice to this point, the results are positive for destroying HER2 tumors.

The vaccine targets breast cancer caused by an excess of a protein called HER2 - and even destroyed tumours resistant to current drugs.

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As usual, these findings are relative to the method. Transitioning the same or similar results into humans will come, but from the tone of the article, it sounds like it will take a while.

Do me a favor today: read the HER2 article, learn something new. And if you know about it and can add to the article, by all means do so.