Researchers Cure Melanoma Patient With Own Immune Cells

Researchers in the United States say they have been able to cure a man with skin cancer by injecting the patient with billions of clones of his own immune cells. The 52-year-old man had been suffering from advanced melanoma which had spread to his lungs as well as his lymph nodes, but since receiving the treatment, he has been living cancer-free for two years. Dr Naomi Hunder is an oncologist at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre in Seattle, and one of the lead authors in the study. "One thing that we showed in the paper was that there was immunity to multiple tumour antigens with increase after the T cell infusion," she said. "Not just the one we were targeting, but at least two others. So it may be a general immune act...