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Wednesday, June 18, 2008
Sometimes when there's a seemingly earth-shattering breakthrough in medicine, it takes a while before it becomes clear just how much of the earth has been shattered. But we might just look back on this as a watershed in the treatment of cancer:
Wouldn't it be amazing if the cure for many cancers had been inside us all along...
Cancer patient recovers
A cancer patient has made a full recovery after being injected with billions of his own immune cells in the first case of its kind, doctors have disclosed.
The 52-year-old, who was suffering from advanced skin cancer, was free from tumours within eight weeks of undergoing the procedure.
After two years he is still free from the disease which had spread to his lymph nodes and one of his lungs.
Doctors took cells from the man's own defence system that were found to attack the cancer cells best, cloned them and injected back into his body, in a process known as "immunotherapy". After two years he is still free from the disease which had spread to his lymph nodes and one of his lungs.
Wouldn't it be amazing if the cure for many cancers had been inside us all along...
Cancer patient recovers
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