Breakthrough in cancer treatment
AFP
Tuesday, October 21, 2003
Sydney - Australian researchers on Monday unveiled a
breakthrough treatment for cancer that uses genetically
altered blood cells to kill tumours.
Melbourne 's Peter McCallum Cancer Centre said it hoped
to begin human trials in two years after the treatment
proved effective on mice.
Associate professor Joe Trapani said the treatment
involved taking hundreds of millions of white blood cells
from the sufferer. The cells' DNA is then genetically
altered so they can recognise the tumour and attack it.
''What we've shown so far is that you can take the cells
from the immune system from the animal itself, treat them
outside the body to be able to recognise cancer and then
inject them into the body,'' he said. ''Instead of having
a few, perhaps one in 1,000 cells that can recognise the
tumour, now we have virtually 100 per cent of them that
can home in and so the attack on the tumour is much, much
greater.''
The treatment could ultimately be used to tackle many
types of cancers but researchers plan to begin by
targeting commoner forms.
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