New Cancer Vaccine Shows Promise
AUDIO: TEXT: A new vaccine therapy developed by Stanford University School of Medicine researchers may someday provide hope for cancer patients. Working with mice, the scientists injected minute doses of two vaccines, they created, directly into solid tumors that had developed in the animals. Stanford University professor of oncology, Dr. Ronald Levy, MD, is the […]
Study Finds Genetically Altered Immune Cells Kill Cancer
Researchers at New York’s Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center say they’ve been able to successfully train a patient’s own immune cells to find and destroy cancer. In the largest-ever clinical study of patients with an advanced form of leukemia, the researchers found that 88 percent of the subjects treated with their own genetically modified immune cells were able […]