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Immunotherapy beats terminal breast cancer

Treatment consist in collecting, in vitro expansion and injection of white blood cells in patients

04-Jun-2018

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Patient originally given three months to live.

Secondary cancers included tennis ball-sized tumours in liver.

Patient's tumour genetically analysed to identify immune system targets.

90 billion white blood cells grown in lab and re-injected.

Two years later there is no sign of cancer in her body.

Technique remains experimental and needs more testing.

The study was published in the Nature Medicine journal.

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National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Institute for cancer research.

Nature Medicine

Scientific Journal providing information from all areas of medicine.

Steven A. Rosenberg

Cancer researcher and surgeon, chief of Surgery at the National Cancer Institute.

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Cancer