Cancer Patient Makes Full Recovery After Injection of Billions of Own Cloned Immune Cells

By: Roger Highfield, Science Editor Telegraph.co.uk

Doctors took cells from the man's own defence system that were found to attack the cancer cells best, cloned them and injected back into his body, in a process known as "immunotherapy". Experts said that the case could mark a landmark in the treatment of cancer.

Genetically altered white blood cells have been used before to treat cancer patients but this is the first study to show that simply growing vast numbers of the few immune cells in the body to attack a cancer can be safe and effective.

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