Post by bob on Mar 20, 2013 23:38:27 GMT -5
Science marches on.
Bob
A treatment that genetically alters a patient’s own immune cells to fight cancer has, for the first time, produced remissions in adults with an acute leukemia that is usually lethal, researchers are reporting.
In one patient who was severely ill, all traces of leukemia vanished in eight days.
www.nytimes.com/2013/03/21/health/altered-t-cell-therapy-shows-promise-for-acute-leukemia.html?_r=0
In one patient who was severely ill, all traces of leukemia vanished in eight days.
www.nytimes.com/2013/03/21/health/altered-t-cell-therapy-shows-promise-for-acute-leukemia.html?_r=0
Bob