{"id":218620,"date":"2025-07-24T07:02:52","date_gmt":"2025-07-24T12:02:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/us-approves-clinical-trial-of-cuban-lung-cancer-vaccine"},"modified":"2025-07-24T07:02:52","modified_gmt":"2025-07-24T12:02:52","slug":"us-approves-clinical-trial-of-cuban-lung-cancer-vaccine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/us-approves-clinical-trial-of-cuban-lung-cancer-vaccine","title":{"rendered":"US Approves Clinical Trial of Cuban Lung Cancer Vaccine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/us-approves-clinical-trial-of-cuban-lung-cancer-vaccine.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Federal regulators have given approval for U.S. clinical trials of a Cuban-developed lung cancer vaccine.<\/p>\n<p>New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced the Food and Drug Administration\u2019s decision Wednesday at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo.<\/p>\n<p>Lung cancer is the second most commonly diagnosed cancer in both men and women, according to the American Cancer Society, which estimates nearly 160,000 Americans will die from the disease this year, with non-small cell cancer the most frequently diagnosed type, by far.<\/p>\n<p>The Cuban lung cancer vaccine, called CIMAvax, was developed by the Center of Molecular Immunology in Havana. It works as a form of immunotherapy.<\/p>\n<p>(October 26 2016) <\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>The FDA allows a landmark test of a Cuban vaccine that uses the body\u2019s immune system to starve lung-cancer cells.<\/p>\n<div class=\"more-link-wrapper\"> <a class=\"more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2025\/07\/us-approves-clinical-trial-of-cuban-lung-cancer-vaccine\">Continue reading \u201cUS Approves Clinical Trial of Cuban Lung Cancer Vaccine\u201d | &gt;<\/a><\/div><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Federal regulators have given approval for U.S. clinical trials of a Cuban-developed lung cancer vaccine. New York Governor Andrew Cuomo announced the Food and Drug Administration\u2019s decision Wednesday at the Roswell Park Cancer Institute in Buffalo. Lung cancer is the second most commonly diagnosed cancer in both men and women, according to the American Cancer [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":534,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-218620","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218620","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/534"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=218620"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/218620\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=218620"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=218620"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=218620"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}