In Camagüey employment of therapeutic vaccine against the prostate cancer

An advance step in the treatment of the oncological pathologies, constitutes the employment of the therapeutic vaccine against the prostate cancer, taken place by the Center of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB) of Camagüey.

After several clinical rehearsals the medication is applied the patients of the masculine sex, suffered of prostate cancer, in which its effectiveness was proven.

As the Doctor Oscar Laserra specified , boss of the services of oncology of the county, the employment of the vaccine diminishes the pain sensations, the urinary infections, and favors the immunologic answer from the patients to other types of treatments.

The fight Program against the cancer in Camagüey, also leans on in the braquioteraphy, nuclear medicine, cobalt teams and cytostatic, clinical practices, sensibly damaged by the economic blockade sustained by the government from Washington against Cuba.

Last year the prostatic cancer charged a considerable number of human lives, for that reason the professionals of the Center of Genetic Engineering and Biotechnology (CIGB) of Camagüey, dedicate its efforts to produce therapeutic vaccines to treat the patients affected by that ailment. (Alex López Almaguer)