How cancer immunotherapy works
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19/06/2008
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Tribune (New Delhi)
Jeremy Laurance A 52-year-old man with advanced melanoma, the lethal form of skin cancer, has been successfully treated using just his own blood. The development has been hailed by British experts as an "exciting advance' in the use of cancer immunotherapy, which harnesses the body's immune system to fight the disease. Researchers in the US who were treating the patient extracted white blood cells, the key component of the immune system, and grew one type