Prostate Cancer

But Schlom is quick to add that early trials aren't real proof.

"We haven't shown anything yet" because these have been tests on small groups of men, without any other group with which to compare them.

The good results could be due to chance.

So the cancer institute is beginning new tests with larger groups of men, who will be compared against a matched group whose members don't get the vaccine.

It's a new way of evaluating a new type of medicine.

And it might spawn a new way to treat an old and deadly disease.

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