Source: Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Center
Posted: May 9, 2006
Summary:
Wake Forest University School of Medicine researchers announced that white blood cells from a strain of cancer-resistant mice cured advanced cancers in ordinary laboratory.
The transplanted white blood cells not only killed existing cancers, but also protected normal mice from what should have been lethal doses of highly aggressive new cancers.
This marks the first time that an unusually aggressive cancer was treat successfully with white blood cells.
Preliminary studies show that the white blood cells also kill "endogenous" cancers -- cancers that spring up naturally in the body's own cells.
Commentary: This research provides a basis for studying and hopefully using cell tranplantation to cure cancer in humans in the future.
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