[Telegraph] Researchers in immunotherapy trials engineer cells so they boost body's natural defences and stand guard for lifetime - acting effectively like vaccine.
A revolutionary new cancer treatment that remembers the disease and acts like a watchman to prevent it ever returning is being developed by scientists. Researchers are engineering immune cells so that they not only boost the body's own natural defences to fight tumours, but stand guard for a lifetime - acting effectively like a vaccine.
Scientists say it is like having a "living drug", which is constantly vigilant to the return of cancer and quickly removes it from the body. |