Doctors hail world first as woman’s advanced breast cancer is eradicated
by Ian Sample and Jessica Glenza from Science | The Guardian on (#3RKC4)
Immune cells from the woman's own body used to wipe out tumours
A woman with advanced breast cancer which had spread around her body has been completely cleared of the disease by a groundbreaking therapy that harnessed the power of her immune system to fight the tumours.
It is the first time that a patient with late-stage breast cancer has been successfully treated by a form of immunotherapy that uses the patient's own immune cells to find and destroy cancer cells that have formed in the body.
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