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A JAB that could cut breast cancer by 70 per cent will be tested on humans next year, it was revealed last night.

If it works it could save more than 8,000 lives a year in Britain alone.

Dr Vincent Tuohy, who created the vaccine, said: "We believe this will some day be used to prevent breast cancer in adult women in the same way that vaccines have prevented many childhood diseases."

He added: "If it works in humans the way it works in mice, this will be monumental."

Dr Tuohy, of the Cleveland Clinic in Ohio, US, added: "We believe breast cancer is a completely preventable disease."

The jab works by boosting the immune system, which attacks a protein called alpha-lactalbumin that occurs in most breast cancers.

By destroying every trace of it, the tumours don't develop and existing ones are shrunk by up to half.

The drug has been tested on rodents prone to breast cancer and they never developed the disease.

Dr Caitlin Palframan, from Breakthrough Breast Cancer, said: "We look forward to seeing the results of large-scale clinical trials to find out if this vaccine would be safe and effective in humans."

It is due to be tested in two trials next year but will not be on the market for at least a decade.

http://www.thesun.co.uk/sol/homepage...SS&ATTR=Health

Heard about this on GMTV this morning, sounds pretty hopeful. 10 years is quite the wait though.