Therapy Made From Patient's Immune System Shows Promise For Advanced Breast Cancer
An experimental therapy seems to have eradicated cancer in a patient with metastatic breast cancer who had failed every other treatment. The goal is to reliably repeat that success in more people.
by Rob Stein
Jun 04, 2018
3 minutes
Doctors at the National Institutes of Health say they've apparently completely eradicated cancer from a patient who had untreatable, advanced breast cancer.
The case is raising hopes about a new way to harness the immune system to fight some of the most common cancers. The methods and the patient's experience are described Monday in a paper published in the journal Nature Medicine.
"We're looking for a treatment — an immunotherapy — that can be broadly used in patients with common, an oncologist and immunologist at the National Cancer Institute, who has been developing the approach.
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