it has unveiled a new breakthrough in medicine this weekend: there is a vaccine against lung cancer and is considered effective.
On the occasion of World no tobacco day, has been given to know this important medication in order to improve the quality of life for many people.
name of lung cancer vaccine is racotumomab and took almost 20 years to be developed by Argentine scientists, found its effectiveness for treating respiratory diseases by showing that patients who consumed it increased their chances of living from 8% to 24%.
This cancer vaccine may be applied in Argentina from July and is expected to hit Nations such as Mexico, Brazil, Uruguay and Turkey during 2013; it knows nothing about the other countries of the world.
This is an excerpt from the communiqué issued by Luis Enrique Fein, director of research and development of the vaccine:
Lung cancer is a disease that has much lethality. It mostly appears as advanced disease and has no curative treatment. Traditional weapons, which include chemotherapy and radiotherapy, are still useful, but there comes a time in which cease to be so, or the patient spends a time with controlled disease and reappears. In this instance is very valuable therapeutic vaccine .
The importance of this discovery is enormous, because lung cancer is the leading cause of death by cancer in our planet, killing 1.40 million people each year; each year arise 1.60 million sick because of pollution and cigarette abuse.
Soon we will bring you more details about the effectiveness of the racotumomab and the details to be able to qualify for the vaccine in question, no doubt this is good news for cancer patients and those with probabilities of having it in the future.
