EstherArévalo Notícia 5

Tenerife researchers working on a cancer vaccine

  http://diariodeavisos.elespanol.com/2016/12/investigadores-la-isla-trabajan-una-vacuna-pionera-cancer/

The Institute of Natural Products and Agrobiology of the Canaries Higher Research Center (CSIC) is leading a project that can deal with prostate cancer, one of the typologies of this disease that affects men the world over. The deputy director of this center, Juan Ignacio Padrón, is the coordinator of the project.The project has been funded by scholarships awarded by Europe under the name Marie Curie.

The main objective of this vaccine is to use it in patients already sick and not in a preventive way, in this way the vaccine can replace chemotherapy. One of the researchers emphasized that this vaccine simply attacks the bad cells and would not produce those side effects that you suffer with chemotherapy; For example, hair loss.

The basis of the vaccine is to inject a molecule that allows reactivating the immune system to cope with cancer cells by itself. The head of the project said that one of the problems of cancer is that the cells affected by this pathology are invisible to the immune system, and therefore can not cope with it, as it does with other diseases. Therefore, the vaccine aims to activate the system so that it can fight alone against prostate cancer.

Its future use in patients, the coordinator clarified that it is still early to set a date, as the entire work process must be completed first, which can take several years. This scientific initiative is being carried out from the CSIC with the collaboration of The Scripps Research Institute in San Diego, (United States).

                  









In my opinion, it is fascinating the advances in medicine that are nowadays; They study new diseases, their cures, their symptoms, every day the treatments are improved against in cancer etc. Therefore I think that it does not matter how long it takes you to do something but how many men will live healthy and calm. This vaccine, if it becomes feasible, could help live that 1 in 6 men who have this cancer, so I think it's great that you have different in
vestors to collaborate with the maintenance of the team and the progress in research.

16/12/2016

 VOCABULARI 

Cope-to come into contact; meet. Awarded- to give because of merit; bestow: For example : The Nobel Committee awarded him the prize money. 

 

Aims- figurative( pretender, aspirar a ..) For example: When I play, I aim to win.  (Cuando juego pretendo ganar)                                

                                                                                                         Juan Padrón

	Ambit-- medicine