Dr. Elizabeth Mittendorf on Predictive Biomarkers in Vaccine Treatment for Breast Cancer

Elizabeth Mittendorf, MD, PhD, associate professor, Department of Surgical Oncology, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, discusses discovering a predictive biomarker response in vaccine therapy for patients with breast cancer. Mittendorf says this may be because the metastatic environment can be hostile, and moving the therapy to the neoadjvant setting may be the best route for these patients to see results.