Among women younger than 40, non-Hispanic black women have higher rates of breast cancer compared to white women.
The researchers in Maryland are currently working on launching full-scale clinical trails for the immunotherapy treatment to be used in other kinds of advanced cancer cases, including prostate and ovarian. Though they caution that the procedure has only been tested – and proved successful – in one woman, they say that it could be the start of a revolution in life-saving cancer treatments.
The treatment’s findings were published in Nature Medicine.