Patient's own infection-fighting T cells put late-stage melanoma into long-term remission

Thursday, June 19, 2008 - 06:21 in Health & Medicine

Researchers describe the first successful use of a human patient's cloned infection-fighting T cells as the sole therapy to put an advanced solid-tumour cancer into long-term remission. A team led by Cassian Yee, M.D., an associate member of the Clinical Research Division at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre, reports these findings in the 19 June issue of the New England Journal of Medicine...

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