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Breakthrough for treating blood related cancers
02-18-2016, 03:25 PM
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Breakthrough for treating blood related cancers
Read today that in clinical trials, Dr. Stanley Riddell was able to send 93% (27 of 29) of patients into remission by removing T-cells from the patient and essentially training them (Bio-Engineered) to attack the cancer. These T-cells are injected back into the patient where they multiply and attack the cancer like they are supposed to.
https://www.fredhutch.org/en/news/ce...S-riddell.html
This is not a cure-all for all types of cancer, but I could see it, along with genetic testing, being used to create a type of cancer vaccine. 10-15 years from now the whole landscape will change for this type of treatment. Medicine is moving quickly, it's too bad I may die before all the really good stuff happens.
Some of the patients in the trial, which began in 2013, were originally not expected to survive for more than a few months because their disease had previously relapsed or was resistant to other treatments, said Dr. Stanley Riddell, an immunotherapy researcher and oncologist Fred Hutch. Today, there is no sign of disease.
https://www.fredhutch.org/en/news/ce...S-riddell.html
This is not a cure-all for all types of cancer, but I could see it, along with genetic testing, being used to create a type of cancer vaccine. 10-15 years from now the whole landscape will change for this type of treatment. Medicine is moving quickly, it's too bad I may die before all the really good stuff happens.
