--- title: Breast Cancer Vaccine Shows Promise in Slowing Progress description: A small trial shows safety and effectiveness canonical: https://time.com/3611635/breast-cancer-vaccine-safety-trial/ author: Alexandra Sifferlin article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2014-12-01T16:05:35.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-02-22T02:28:08.446Z article:section: Health og:title: Breast Cancer Vaccine Shows Promise in Slowing Progress og:description: A small trial shows safety and effectiveness og:url: https://time.com/3611635/breast-cancer-vaccine-safety-trial/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9a165f3d3fafaffe/69876b99428a9eb402cc5b13/breast-cancer-vaccine.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 3675 og:image:height: 2067 og:image:alt: Hand holding a syringe og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Breast Cancer Vaccine Shows Promise in Slowing Progress twitter:description: A small trial shows safety and effectiveness twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/blt9a165f3d3fafaffe/69876b99428a9eb402cc5b13/breast-cancer-vaccine.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Breast Cancer Vaccine Shows Promise in Slowing Progress > Sponsored content. 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The vaccine, which is being developed by researchers at Washington University School of Medicine in St. Louis, is meant for patients with breast cancers that express a protein found only in breast tissue called mammaglobin-A. Tumors express a very high level of the protein, and research shows it’s present in up to 80% of breast cancers. That means if the vaccine makes it to market, it could potentially be beneficial to a very high number of breast cancer patients. The vaccine works by making the immune system focus and destroy cells with the mammaglobin-A protein. In a recent trial to test the vaccine’s safety [published](http://clincancerres.aacrjournals.org/content/20/23/5964.abstract) in the journal, _Clinical Cancer Research_, the researchers tested the vaccine in 14 breast cancer patients with mammaglobin-A. The results of the trial show that the patients had few side effects beyond around eight mild to moderate events like tenderness at vaccination site, flu-like symptoms and rash. There were no severe side effects. The trial was meant to assess just the safety of the vaccine, but the preliminary research showed that the vaccine appears to have slowed cancer progression in many of the patients. Around half of the patients had no cancer progression one year after vaccination. Compared to a control group of 12 unvaccinated patients, only one fifth had no progression. The initial trial is very small, but the researchers say their effectiveness findings are statistically significant. 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