Vaccines have been used for decades to protect us from disease.
Measles, chickenpox, the flu are some of the common ones.
Someday, you may be able to add breast cancer to that list.
Researchers at Mayo Clinic are developing a cancer vaccine to hopefully prevent breast and other types of cancer.
The vaccines work by stimulating the body's natural defense mechanism, the immune system, to attack and and kill cancer cells.
Mayo Clinic Immunology Researcher, Keith Knutson, Ph.D. says, "We think that the use of vaccines in combination with early detection and appropriate therapies to minimize disease may ultimately lead to reductions in morbidity recurrence in at least breast and ovarian cancer with these vaccines."
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