Roswell Park intrigued by Cuban vaccine for lung cancer treatment

[Judi Lynn]

1. Cuban anti-cancer vaccine heads to Roswell Park, NY

Cuban anti-cancer vaccine heads to Roswell Park, NY
April 22, 2015 — Sabina Becker



Dr. Candace Johnson of the Roswell Park Cancer Institute, speaking at a press conference in Cuba. Behind her, at left, is New York governor Andrew Cuomo.

Well. If THIS isn’t historic, I don’t know what is:

The Molecular Immunology Centre of Cuba and the Roswell Park Cancer Institute of New York signed an agreement today to export to the US a therapeutic vaccine against lung cancer developed on the island, so that clinical trials can soon begin.

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It concerns the therapeutic anti-cancer vaccine CIMAVax-EGF, created by Cuba in 2011 after 15 years’ research, with worldwide patent rights.

The vaccine is registered in Cuba and Peru, but countries such as Brazil, Argentina and Colombia are in the process of registration, and others such as the UK and Australia have begun clinical trials with it.

Translation mine.

I do believe I blogged on this a few years ago. At the time, Cuban vaccine developments were studiously ignored by the major US media. That all has changed now, as this Time Warner article makes plain:

Roswell Park Cancer Center Director Dr. Candace Johnson said Cuba’s Center for Molecular Immunology has developed a lung cancer vaccine and following an agreement Tuesday, Roswell will set up clinical trials to test the drug. Before that’s done, Roswell must submit an Investigational New Drug Application to get the vaccine FDA approved.

“They’ve agreed to share that information with us, and we will now prepare the IND that will go to the FDA to get approved,” Johnson said.

Johnson said the way the vaccine works is unique.

“This is an anti-growth factor vaccine. The growth factor is called EGF, and that’s unique. It’s not killing the tumor cell directly. It’s taking something the tumor needs to grow away, and so it has less toxicity associated with it,” Dr. Johnson said.

She said in addition to treating cancer, it could have the ability to prevent cancer.

Johnson said she has no hard timetable on when the clinical trials will begin, but hopes to start in about eight months.

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