A study published in the New England Journal of Medicine reported a 52-year-old man with advanced skin cancer who was cured using his own cells which are cloned outside the patient’s body.
Scientists took cancer-fighting immune cells, cloned the cells, multiplied in the laboratory and put back in their billions to see if they could attack and kill the tumors. After two months, the scan showed the tumors had disappeared, and after two years the man with advanced melanoma, which had spread in the lungs and lymph nodes, remained disease-free.
The study authors, scientists at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center in Seattle said that further trials would need to be conducted to prove how well the treatment worked.
