Recupera Cuba producción de fármacos para tratamiento del cáncer

Tras presentar problemas con financiamiento, materias primas e insumos, Cuba recupera su producción de medicamentos empleados en el tratamiento terapéutico de pacientes con cáncer y otras enfermedades invasivas, se conoció hoy.

A pesar del bloqueo, Cuba salvará vidas en Estados Unidos.

Nace Innovative Immunotherapy Alliance SA, la primera empresa biotecnológica cubana- estadounidense. El Gobernador del Estado de Nueva York, Andrew Cuomo, anunció el acuerdo entre Roswell Park y el Centro de Inmunología Molecular.

A pesar de las trabas que impone el bloqueo contra Cuba, centros científicos de ambos países lograron un acuerdo para introducir en Estados Unidos la vacuna cubana contra el cáncer de pulmón, Cimavax-EGF, una de las pocas opciones disponibles en el mundo para controlar la mortífera enfermedad.

El Gobernador del Estado de Nueva York, Andrew Cuomo, anunció el acuerdo entre el Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center y el Centro de Inmunología Molecular, como el primer proyecto conjunto de biotecnología entre Cuba y Estados Unidos para la lucha contra el cáncer.

Lung cancer patient says she’s now in remission thanks to Cuban vaccine.

 

 A Regina woman who was diagnosed with lung cancer and given a year to live says she’s now in remission thanks to a vaccine she received in Cuba.

Judy Bryden, who received the devastating diagnosis in 2016, travelled to Cuba last year to receive treatment and pick up several doses of the CIMAvax EGF vaccine.  The vaccine was developed for non-small cell lung cancer, which represents up to 85 per cent of all lung cancers.

After taking the vaccine doses over several months, Bryden said a recent scan of her lungs found no cancer.

Judy Bryden travelled to Cuba for the vaccine. (Supplied photo/Pamela Bryden)

“When they told me I had a year to live, I said I was going to prove them wrong,” Bryden told CTV Regina. “I didn’t know how, but I was going to prove them wrong.”

Cuba’s cancer treatments

By Nina Notman (chemistryworld.com)

Cuba lies approximately 90 miles off the southern tip of Florida, US. Yet life on the island couldn’t be more different from that of its rich neighbour. The approximately 11 million people who live in this socialist country have limited internet access, and are regularly frustrated by shortages of basic groceries such as milk. But on the flip side, healthcare and education at every level is free for all.

Socialist Cuba is the brainchild of Fidel Castro, who in 1959 overthrew the country’s US-supported regime and aligned Cuba with the Soviet Union. As Cuba’s relationship with the US continued to sour, US president John F Kennedy placed an official embargo on all trade between the US and Cuba in 1962. The embargo remains in place today, and also      affects Cuba’s trade with most other countries.

CimaVax-EGF, primera vacuna contra el cáncer de pulmón es cubana

La primera vacuna terapéutica contra el cáncer de pulmón de la historia ya ha sido aprobada para la comercialización en Cuba. Ahora los especialistas evalúan implementar el principio de la función del prometedor fármaco en el tratamiento de otras enfermedades oncológicas.