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.
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