Alpha lactalbumin is a whey protein, found among other places, in mothers milk. It has recently been in the news as the primary protein used in the search for a cure for breast cancer.

For the last eight years, Dr. Vincent Tuohy, at the Cleveland Clinic, has been searching for a vacine for breast cancer. Dr. Tuohy discovered that mice injected with the vaccine, based on Alpha lactalbumin, did not develop breast tumors, while 100 percent of the mice that were not vacinated, had breast tumors.

The vacine also seems to inhibit the growth of pre-existing tumors.

In an interview he also states that "There's nothing fancy about it. We're vaccinating against something that isn't there unless you have tumors, so it shouldn't harm you. And it should kill the tumors,".

The main part of the vaccine, a protein called Alpha lactalbumin found in lactating breasts, is also found in breast tumors, but not in healthy breasts. It is suggested that women who are finished breast feeding, would recieve the vaccine thus boosting their own immune systems and supplying the means to kill off cancerous cells while not damaging healthy ones.

"We think that breast cancer is a completely preventable disease in the same way that polio is completely preventable," Dr. Tuohy says.

This sort of research gives hope to anyone who has, or knows of anyone with breast cancer. To say nothing of outright prevention. In 2009, The American cancer society estimates that there was 192,370 new cases of invasive breast cancer and 40,170 deaths from breast cancer.

(c) 2010 Alphalactalbumin.com

Use of this article is forbidden without express permission from the author.

Breast surgery in cancer error
Health bosses have ordered an urgent investigation into how a woman was wrongly diagnosed with cancer and had her breast removed.The woman's test results were switched with another patient who has since been given the heartbreaking...Read More...

Vaccine may cut breast cancer recurrence risk in half
A new breast cancer vaccine has been shown to cut the risk of recurrence by nearly half.Read More...

Vaccine decreases breast cancer recurrence in study
Vaccine decreases breast cancer recurrence in study Houston Chronicle Copyright 2012 Houston Chronicle. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 10:54 p.m., Wednesday, May 16, 2012 Houston researchers on Wednesday reported positive results with an experimental breast cancer vaccine, a promising development in an emerging field in ...Read More...

Breast removed in cancer error
An Otago woman had her breast removed in error after being wrongly diagnosed with cancer.Read More...

Breast cancer vaccine shows promise in study
Breast cancer vaccine shows promise in study Houston Chronicle Copyright 2012 Houston Chronicle. All rights reserved. This material may not be published, broadcast, rewritten or redistributed. Updated 11:16 p.m., Wednesday, May 16, 2012 Houston researchers on Wednesday reported positive results with an experimental breast cancer vaccine, a promising development in an emerging field in cancer ...Read More...

Cancer vaccine shows promise
A new breast cancer vaccine has been shown to cut the risk of recurrence by nearly half.Read More...

Study unpicks gene changes behind breast cancer
LONDON (Reuters) - Scientists have mapped the complete genetic codes of 21 breast cancers and created a catalogue of the mutations that accumulate in breast cells, raising hopes that the disease may be able to be spotted earlier and treated more effectively in future. The research, the first of its kind, untangles the genetic history of how cancer evolves, allowing scientists to identify ...Read More...

Breast cancer vaccine that elicits powerful immune response also improves recurrence rates
A breast cancer vaccine already shown to elicit a powerful immune response in women with varying levels of HER2 expression has the ability to improve recurrence rates and is well tolerated in an adjuvant setting, according to new research from a clinical trial led by researchers at The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center.Read More...

Breast cancer study reveals 'substantial genetic diversity'
A new study of the protein-coding genes in 100 breast cancer tumors revealed vast differences among the cancers and highlights how complicated the disease really is, researchers said Wednesday.Read More...

Untangling the development of breast cancer
( Wellcome Trust Sanger Institute ) The team created a catalog of all the mutations in the genomes of the 21 breast cancer genomes. They identified entirely new mutational processes that drive breast cancer development, including one remarkable process defined by localized regions of hypermutation found in most of the breast cancers. This phenomenon has never been seen before. They also found ...Read More...