Patient, Heal Thyself: Body's Own Immune Cells Whack Late-Stage Tumor [News]
Wednesday, June 18, 2008 - 19:28
in Health & Medicine
In what could be a breakthrough in cancer therapy, researchers report in The New England Journal of Medicine today that they succeeded in bolstering a patient's immune system enough to wipe out late-stage malignant tumors on its own. The scientists say the successful experiment could pave the way for new treatments of advanced cancer that spare patients the side effects of chemotherapy, which kills healthy as well as malignant cells. [More]
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