Clone cell cancer 'cure' hailed (BBC) - Democratic Underground

eppur_se_muova

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Wed Jun-18-08 09:08 PM
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Clone cell cancer 'cure' hailed (BBC)

Scientists claim they have cured advanced skin cancer for the first time using the patient's own cells cloned outside the body.

The 52-year-old man involved was free of melanoma two years after treatment.

US researchers, reports the New England Journal of Medicine, took cancer-fighting immune cells, made five billion copies, then put them all back.

Scientists in the UK warned that further trials would need to be done to prove how well the treatment worked.
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The 52-year-old man had advanced melanoma which had spread to the lungs and lymph nodes.
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more: http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/7460743.stm

:wow::wow::wow:

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GreenPartyVoter

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Wed Jun-18-08 09:13 PM
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1. That _is_ jaw-dropping

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oldtime dfl_er

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Wed Jun-18-08 10:04 PM
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2. Whoa

that should be front page news!

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pepperbear

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Wed Jun-18-08 10:10 PM
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3. I'm gonna say it....

Edited on Wed Jun-18-08 10:11 PM by pepperbear

If this had been the States, the headline would read:

Man in need of life saving operation dies because insurance company wouldn't pay for experimental surgery.

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papau

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Wed Jun-18-08 10:11 PM
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4. This is same approach Ted Kennedy's Duke Doc is using in a small experimental group

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eppur_se_muova

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Thu Jun-19-08 04:43 PM
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5. Wow! Got a link? That sounds potentially very interesting. nt

The doctor in Seattle was Dr Cassian Yee.

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HysteryDiagnosis

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Fri Jul-04-08 01:11 PM
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6. Immunotherapy??? I wonder what sort of drugs can be patented

from one's own immune systems' cells??

http://www.cancer.org/docroot/ETO/eto_1_3_Immunotherapy.asp
Immunotherapy

Immunotherapy uses your immune system (either boosting your own or using parts of another) to fight cancer. Many future advances against cancer will probably come from this field.

This document explains: the different cells of the immune system and how they normally work to protect you from disease; the different types of immunotherapy (monoclonal antibodies,cancer vaccines, non-specific immunotherapies and adjuvants ); and the forms of immunotherapy used for specific cancers.

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