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But when the lump got bigger and doctors conducted a second biopsy, it came back positive for triple-negative breast cancer.
Soon after having a double mastectomy — plus several rounds of chemotherapy and radiation — Davis learned about the clinical trials of a breast cancer vaccine, spearheaded by the late Dr. Vincent Tuohy of the Cleveland Clinic.“My [health care] team informed me of the vaccine that Dr. Tuohy had been studying for a long time,” Davis said of the Cleveland Clinic trials. “So that was lucky.”
“They did lab work prior to every injection,” she said. “I had no side effects except for lumps at the injection site — it was just like any other vaccine or shot that you get.” TNBC is “typically much more aggressive, so the outcome for those women is not very good,” Kumar said. He and his team at Anixa Biosciences hope the breast cancer vaccine can “eliminate the recurrence for those women and eventually, prevent the cancer from ever arising.”Kumar added, “We eventually want to do clinical trials in other types of breast cancer. We might be able to eliminate breast cancer as a disease, just as we have eliminated polio [in the US] and smallpox.
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