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Wednesday, October 13, 2010

Vaccine To Prenvent Colon Cancer

I was at my weekly GroupLink Womens meeting last night and we started talking about colon cancer.  It was mentioned that researchers were working on a vaccine for colon cancer.  Here is the updated information:


Vaccine To Prevent Colon Cancer Being Tested In Patients

ScienceDaily (2009-03-25) -- Researchers have begun testing a vaccine that might be able to prevent colon cancer in people at high risk for developing the disease. If shown to be effective, it might spare patients the risk and inconvenience of repeated invasive surveillance tests, such as colonoscopy, that are now necessary to spot and remove precancerous polyps. ... > read full article

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