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Rich66 · 04-29-2010, 08:04 PM

Bird,
I think the gist of things is that they are realizing some prostate cancers, as well as ovarian and gastric, have a her2 receptor, making them targetable by her2 based therapies. I have not seen anything suggesting male her2+ breast cancer increasing risk of prostate cancer of any variety. The Provenge vaccine therapy is not Her2 based. I do like the Antigen Her2 vaccine approach since it seems to be able to target tumors with lower Her2 levels, opening it up to more (75%) BC patients.

04-29-2010, 08:04 PM	#6
Rich66 Senior Member Join Date: Feb 2008 Location: South East Wisconsin Posts: 3,431	Re: Antigen Her2 vaccine progress (breast and prostate) Bird, I think the gist of things is that they are realizing some prostate cancers, as well as ovarian and gastric, have a her2 receptor, making them targetable by her2 based therapies. I have not seen anything suggesting male her2+ breast cancer increasing risk of prostate cancer of any variety. The Provenge vaccine therapy is not Her2 based. I do like the Antigen Her2 vaccine approach since it seems to be able to target tumors with lower Her2 levels, opening it up to more (75%) BC patients. __________________ Mom's treatment history (link)