EXCLUSIVE: Breast cancer vaccine ‘could eliminate disease by 2030’: 15 women who survived aggressive tumors are still in remission up to five years later after receiving experimental shot — now doctors believe a cure is in sight

An experimental breast cancer vaccine showing promise in early trials is raising the prospect of eliminating one of the world’s biggest killers.

So far, 15 women with an aggressive form of breast cancer have received the shot and have been in remission for up to five years — despite being at high risk of relapse.

Among them is mother-of-two Jennifer Davis, a 46-year-old nurse from Lisbon, Ohio, who underwent dozens of brutal rounds of chemo, radiotherapy and a double mastectomy before being enrolled in the trial.

She told DailyMail.com she now feels ‘better physically and mentally than I ever have’.  ‘I can’t even wrap my brain around it. I am so hopeful for everybody. I have two daughters, I have a mom,’ she added.

‘I want everybody I know to get it. I want everyone to be able to get it. If this can prevent it, it’ll be amazing.’ The new vaccine works by training the body to attack a protein that is produced in pregnant and lactating women but is often a precursor to cancer.

So far, it is only being trialed on triple-negative cancer, which, if caught early, is highly treatable. The problem is it spreads rapidly and silently to other parts of the body, at which point as few as 12 per cent of patients live beyond five years.

But it is hoped the shot will soon be given to healthy people years in advance to stop them from ever getting any form of breast cancer, which would make the vaccine the first of its kind.

Dr Amit Kumar, CEO of Anixa Biosciences, the company developing the vaccine, told DailyMail.com: ‘We might be able to eliminate breast cancer as a disease, just like we have eliminated polio and smallpox.’

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