A member asked:

What is ovax vaccine and can someone with stage 1c rectal cancer get the vaccine?

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For ovarian cancer: My understanding of ovax is that it is for ovarian cancer. It is a vaccine made from your own tumor cells. It is in the testing phase and is not available to the general public as yet. No one has proven that injecting a patient with their own tumor cells will cause the immune system to react against the cancer, but that is the idea behind it.

Answered 3/6/2013

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