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When the U.S. trade embargo left Cuba isolated from medical resources, Cuban scientists were forced to get creative. Now they’ve developed lung cancer vaccines that show so much promise, some Americans are defying the embargo and traveling to Cuba for treatment. In an unprecedented move, Cuban researchers are working with U.S. partners to make the medicines more widely available.

Can Cuba's innovative lung cancer vaccines give new hope to patients across the world?

Cuba's Cancer Hope

In 2015, doctors diagnosed George Keays with stage 4 lung cancer, which has low survival rates beyond one or two years. Can a vaccine in Cuba help him more than drugs available in the U.S.?

Cuban lung cancer vaccines offer new hope.

An American Cancer Patient Receives Treatment in Cuba

American Cancer Patient Receives Treatment in Cuba

Researchers discover how cancer masks itself from the immune system and figure out how patients’ immune systems can recognize cancer cells and attack them.

The battle begins as soon as healthy cells mutate into cancer cells.

How the Immune System Fights Cancer

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(This program is no longer available for streaming). When the U.S. trade embargo left Cuba isolated from medical resources, Cuban scientists were forced to get creative. Now they’ve developed lung cancer vaccines that show so much promise, some Americans are defying the embargo and traveling to Cuba for treatment. In an unprecedented move, Cuban researchers are working with U.S. partners to make the medicines more widely available. (Premiered April 1, 2020)

Can Cuba's innovative lung cancer vaccines give new hope to patients across the world?

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