Healthier Together: Breast cancer vaccine trials [Video]

Within the next ten years, we could see a vaccine that can prevent and do away with cancer. This new treatment could help eradicate breast cancer and maybe other cancers pretty soon — a situation that was unimaginable decades ago.

KIRO 7 spoke to researchers at the University of Washington’s Cancer Vaccine Institute who have lead the way on this groundbreaking treatment.

“It is a reality. We’re studying cancer vaccines in three different areas,” said Dr. Mary Lenora Disis — also known as Nora.

She’s the director of UW Medicine’s Cancer Vaccine Institute and has studied the development of cancer vaccines. She says we do indeed have the potential to have a “shot” at eliminating cancer in patients, as well as preventing cancer from coming back, and preventing cancer from ever happening.

“If you had asked me 30 years ago, the biggest question in the field at that time was …