A prophylactic vaccine for breast cancer? Why not?
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Correspondence: Vincent K Tuohy tuohyv@ccf.org
Cleveland Clinic, Lerner Research Institute, Department of Immunology, NB30, 9500 Euclid Avenue, Cleveland, OH, 44195, USA
Breast Cancer Research 2010, 12:405 doi:10.1186/bcr2775
Published: 8 December 2010First paragraph (this article has no abstract)
In a recent issue of Breast Cancer Research, Watson and Gusterson wrote a viewpoint article [1] about our strategy for developing a prophylactic breast cancer vaccine [2]. The authors base much of their view on several misconceptions and misrepresentations that we wish to clarify.