Vaccine trial update

[Ellie F]

Thanks Becky
I guess this goes some way to explaining why growing then re-injecting your own T-cells may not be as effective as we would hope if the cancer cancer can engulf them and change their function.
My onc said that he believes quite a lot of patients have a natural immune response to her 2 bc but a fast growing tumour outstrips the immune systems ability to destroy them.He is also a believer that the micro-environment of the body plays a big part in recurrence, hence some women with large tumours do well and some with smaller ones don't.
I always remember Eric Winer saying that we should throw most of our resources at researching metastasis as once we can cure this we know we can cure early stage!
Thanks
Ellie