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The method works by using two agents to reinvigorate cancer-fighting T cells directly in the tumor. One of the agents amplifies the activation of the T cells, while the other stimulates the cells into attacking the cancer. Some of the T cells even leave the tumor to find and destroy similar growths in the body.
The method has worked remarkably well in the lab with both targeted and untargeted tumors shrinking or disappearing after treatment. In this way a staggering 87 of 90 mice studied were cured of the cancer. The researchers saw similar results in mice with breast, colon and melanoma tumors. The study by Stanford researchers is published in the journal Science Translational Medicine.
"When we use these two agents together, we see the elimination of tumors all over the body," one of the researchers, Ronald Levy, said. "Our approach uses a one-time application of very small amounts of two agents to stimulate the immune cells only within the tumor itself. In the mice, we saw amazing, bodywide effects, including the elimination of tumors all over the animal."
The method doesn't require wholesale activation of the immune system and it bypasses the need to identify tumor-specific immune targets. Levy, a professor of oncology at Stanford, specializes in the field of cancer immunotherapy, which seeks to harness the immune system to combat cancer. "All of these immunotherapy advances are changing medical practice," he added.
An initial trial is set to get underway soon with researchers planning to recruit 15 people with low-grade lymphoma.
Despite the hugely promising results Dr Len Lichtenfeld, of the American Cancer Society, is urging caution.
"This study had excellent results. The mice had substantial responses, and the mice lived longer. But it's important to remember that it's a mouse study. Lab studies in animals don't always translate to people," he told HealthDay.
Lichtenfeld pointed out that there are still a lot of unknowns about the treatment, such as how many cancers will it tackle, will it work on everyone, and does it have the potential to overstimulate the immune system? He added that he hopes the research will move forward quickly.
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Make people sick, give drugs to "make them feel better". Rinse and repeat for maximum profit.
According to "new research!" What a joke, they (the science community as a whole), come out with new research about as often as young girls change BFFs. No vaccine has ever been proven by old or new research to prevent any illness and it certainly won't successfully attack tumors in anything without killing everything else with it.
They killed Rife's microscope like they killed Tesla's research, nobody can make repair money on stuff that's fixed! Chemotherapy kills cancer cells, and also kills a multitude of perfectly good cells too.
Vaccine has never been proven to be an effective prevention against disease in the first place. VACCINE: a substance used to stimulate the production of antibodies and provide immunity against one or several diseases, prepared from the causative agent of a disease, its products, or a synthetic substitute, treated to act as an antigen without inducing the disease."there is no vaccine against HIV infection"
NOTE: "prepared from the causative agent." Most SOTT readers already "get" that the multiple outbreaks in vaccinated and unvaccinated populations comes from the vaccines and not from naturally occurring disease. I spent 35 years typing medical records and can't even count the times I typed notes on patients who came down with the very things they were vaccinated for, very shortly after receiving the vaccine.
That vaccines are being pushed online, through TV ads, and now even signs outside of drugstores should be a red flag to everyone that it's about bottom line and not health.