Cloned Immune Cells Treat Skin Cancer

“A cancer patient has made a full recovery after being injected with billions of his own immune cells in the first case of its kind,” The Daily Telegraph reported. The newspaper described how a 52-year-old man with advanced melanoma, a type of skin cancer that usually has a poor prognosis once it has spread, has made a full recovery. The story said that after two years he is still free from the disease, which had spread to his lymph nodes and one of his lungs.

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Filed under: Dermatology on June 30th, 2008