New Cancer Treatment Reprograms Immune System To Fight Lymphocytic Leukemia

08/11/2011 8:47 am 3 comments

Source: Jonathan LaPook / CBS News

A small medical study out today is generating a huge amount of excitement among cancer researchers. For the first time, scientists have been able to successfully target cancer cells by using cells from a patient’s own immune system.

CBS News medical correspondent Dr. Jon LaPool reports that that the small study produced what researchers call “proof of concept.” It’s a whole new way, of treating cancer.

Researchers engineered a patient’s own immune cells to treat a type of blood cancer called chronic lymphocytic leukemia, or CLL.

CLL affects nearly 15,000 men and women a year and more than 4,000 will die from it.

For years, researchers have been trying to figure out a way to kill cancer cells using a patient’s own immune system. On Wednesday, Dr. Carl June and his team at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine claimed a victory in that effort.

To read this article in its entirety visit CBS News.

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  • Bhandley

    President obama has more issuses to deal with than the single minded issuses
    That mr. smiley and the professor deal with. He has to be the president for all the people not just african americas or people with a platform.

  • Rtimjones

    I must admit I was taken aback when I saw Tavis Smiley and Cornel West on Nightline last night. Cornel West is one of my favorite thinkers. He has always brought a perspective to issues that was fresh and insightful. Tavis Smiley on the other hand may be like Jesse Jackson – a loud useless voice. While I can not say I am particularly happy with the present administration, my hope as an African American is these gentlemen make their intelligence and resourcefulness available to the president without any subliminal agendas.

  • http://www.cancerbooksource.com Connie Strasheim

    It will be interesting to see if this is developed. Therapies that harness the power of the immune system are among the most effective but tend to be fought by the powers that be because they are less lucrative for drug companies than chemotherapy and radiation. The work of Stanislaw Burzynski, MD, illustrates this perfectly.

    Connie Strasheim
    Author, “Defeat Cancer: 15 Doctors of Integrative and Naturopathic Medicine Tell You How”

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