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Malaysia to test Cuban cancer
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March 31, 2007: HAVANA, Cuba (ACN): Malaysia's Bioven
biotechnological center will start tests on a Cuban vaccine
against Cancer, which has sparked great expectations in that
Asian country.
The Malaysian daily New Straits Times referred on Thursday
to the Cuban vaccine, developed by the island's Molecular
Immunology Center (CIMC), as an antidote that offers
patients with terminal cancer new hopes to keep living.
The Bioven center will carry out tests on the vaccine with
the cooperation of the Clinical Research Institute at Kuala
Lumpur's Hospital and the assistance and supervision of
Cuban doctor Gisela Gonzalez, a CIMC expert.
This will be the first major clinical test with a
biotechnological compound ever carried out in the southeast
Asian country, News Straits daily reported.
The tests will include 230 patients suffering from advanced
lung cancer in all the country's hospitals. They will be
administered the Cuban vaccine, known by the acronym FCE,
once a month.
Gonzalez explained that the vaccine provokes an
immunological action by the human body which stops the
growth of cancer cells and destroys those already infected;
however, she said the FCE is not an absolute solution to
cancer, though it contributes to stop its growth and spread
within the human body.
Previous tests in Cuba, Canada and Britain proved that the
Cuban vaccine may double the expectancy of life of cancer
patients, the expert explained.
The Cuban vaccine can be used to fight 60 percent of all
types of cancer including lung, breast, bladder, brain,
neck, prostate and others.
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