Cuba Works on Prostate Cancer Vaccine
Havana, May 5 (Prensa Latina) The Center of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB) of Camaguey Province submitted a candidate vaccine to the National Medicine Control Center to begin clinical tests, part of its quest for a recombinant vaccine and therapy for prostate cancer.
Assistant Research Director Eulogio Pimentel said the CIGB is conducting research on several types of cancer, sometimes involving joint work with other institutions, such as the Molecular Immunology Center that has already developed similar projects for lung, breast, head, neck and prostate cancer.
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