World’s first vaccine for ovarian cancer could ‘wipe out’ the disease

World’s first vaccine for ovarian cancer could wipe out the diseaseSource: PA

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00:00I think having a prevention, a way to prevent ovarian cancer has been

00:09something that I personally have been really literally dreaming about for so

00:15long and the impact that that would have on women and on the disease can be

00:25quite profound and I think that we are now coming to a stage where we could see

00:31that this could potentially be a reality. So I think it really will

00:37depend on the efficacy of the vaccine. So the work that we are set out to do is

00:44about testing the components of the vaccine to try to identify and shortlist

00:52components that are most likely to be the most effective ones and then the

00:59hope is that this would have coverage of a wider group of women so that it would

01:05prevent ovarian cancer in those women. Whether it would eliminate as in

01:12completely abolish the ovarian cancer, it's highly unlikely but my hope is that

01:19it would have a significant impact on reducing the number of ovarian cancer

01:24cases in the future.