(Seattle,
WA)—Cancer doctors are "hailing" a revolutionary new treatment that
allows the human body to kill cancer all by itself. (Photo via Mirror.UK)
The breakthrough—a combination of work
pioneered by Professor Stanley Riddell of the Fred Hutchinson Cancer
Research Center in Seattle and a team of doctors from Italy—centers
around the manipulation of white blood cells, also known as T-cells.
It's called immunotherapy.
In essence, T-cells were removed from the
blood of patients in the cancer trial and then genetically "modified"
before being injected back into the patient.
Doctors and researchers were astonished by the results.
"This
is extraordinary," said Professor Riddell. "It is unprecedented in
medicine, to be honest, to get response rates in this range in these
very advanced patients. (Photo: a killer T-Lymphocyte approaches a cancer cell/Coneyl Jay)
"These are in patients that have failed
everything. Most would be projected to have two to five months to live.
This is potentially paradigm-shifting in terms of how we treat them.
"I think immunotherapy has finally made it to a pillar of cancer therapy."
Although the study was originally conducted
on blood cancers, Riddell's team is also working on using T-cell
technology in targeting solid tumors.
To read more of this amazing
breakthrough, including how Italian researchers are excited about
developing a vaccine to maintain the body's anti-cancer fighting
defenses, click here.
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