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Doctors Inject Cloned Immune Cells, Cure Man of Cancer

By Alex in Medicine on Jun 19, 2008 at 2:05 pm


Science has made a significant stride in curing melanoma, a form of skin cancer, by using cloning cancer-fighting immune cells and injecting them back into the patient:

Scientists at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle concentrated on a type of immune system cell called a CD4+ T cell.

From a sample of the man’s white blood cells, they were able to select CD4+ T cells which had been specifically primed to attack a chemical found on the surface of melanoma cells.

These were then multiplied in the laboratory, and put back in their billions to see if they could mount an effective attack on the tumours.

Two months later, scans showed the tumours had disappeared, and after two years, the man remained disease-free. The new cells persisted in the body for months after the treatment.

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  1. LisaL
    Jun 19th, 2008 at 2:08 pm

    Well hell... get some other cancer patients in there and see if it works on other types of cancer!

  2. wahberee
    Jun 19th, 2008 at 2:10 pm

    wouldn't that cure aids too??
    Clone T-Cells and inject them into the patient.
    Scary stuff, there's already hundreds of articles on the fountain of youth being seen in our lifetime.

  3. Thomas
    Jun 19th, 2008 at 2:16 pm

    Way to go, science.

  4. sal
    Jun 19th, 2008 at 3:18 pm

    Hey! Tanning beds are gonna be popular again!

  5. LaPetitePoi
    Jun 19th, 2008 at 6:01 pm

    According to the Seattle Times, this treatment has worked on only one of nine patients. Don't get me wrong though, it's great that it worked for somebody.

  6. Chad
    Jun 19th, 2008 at 6:18 pm

    T cells? cloning cells to fight disease? wow this is getting a bit too much like resident evil. /me prepares for inevitable zombie epidemic

  7. Sharon
    Jun 19th, 2008 at 8:27 pm

    Hey, Chad, you wouldn't say that if you had stage IV, incurable cancer like I do.

    I welcome all cancer research, and pray for the day that a cure is found for all of us.

  8. p
    Jun 19th, 2008 at 10:03 pm

    I know it sounds REALLY bad...my aunt died from breast cancer...but I kinda think cancer is a way of controlling the human population.

  9. rainbow
    Jun 19th, 2008 at 10:50 pm

    Hey Chad, I sell rifles if you need them XD

  10. zazie
    Jun 20th, 2008 at 12:05 am

    this is so cool!! :)

  11. Andrew G
    Jun 20th, 2008 at 9:51 am

    @ p

    You say that now, but what about when you or someone you care about is diagnosed with cancer?

    But you are right in that SOMETHING needs to be done to control the world's population. So many of the world problems we face today are caused or increased by overpopulation, and every year it is going to just get worse and worse.

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    Jun 20th, 2008 at 11:09 am

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  13. Christophe
    Jun 20th, 2008 at 1:43 pm

    I'd say :
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  14. Jimbo
    Jun 20th, 2008 at 3:50 pm

    But what he really wanted was a "Happy Ending"!

  15. Ali S.
    Jun 20th, 2008 at 8:47 pm

    This is great news. If they can figure out how to get this to work with other various types of cancer types we can hopefully see people get cured.

  16. Aar000n
    Jun 21st, 2008 at 2:14 am

    ... Wait... Why isn't this all over the news then? Even if it doesn't necessarily work on everybody, this is still big news.

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  18. Jenny
    Dec 23rd, 2008 at 5:31 am

    Interesting article. I found some more information here

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