Wednesday, June 18, 2008

Patient's own infection-fighting T cells put late-stage melanoma into long-term remission — without chemotherapy or radiation

Source: Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center
Date: June 18, 2008

Summary:

Researchers describe the first successful use of a human patient's cloned infection-fighting T cells as the sole therapy to put an advanced solid-tumor cancer into long-term remission. A team led by Cassian Yee, M.D., an associate member of the Clinical Research Division at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center, reports these findings in the June 19 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine.