In Mice, Breast Cancer "Vaccine" Trains the Body to Fight Cancerous Cells

Yes, it's in the early stages of research. And yes, it's been tested only on mice. But the procedure developed by Vincent Tuohy and his team, billed as a preliminary breast cancer vaccine, has raised hopes once more that one day in the not-too-distant future such a procedure could be available for humans. In a study this month in Nature Medicine, Tuohy tested the vaccine on mice genetically engineered to be more cancer-prone. The ones that received the full vaccine, with a protein called a-lactalbumin, didn't develop breast cancer. All the others did.