Two-part cancer treatment "eliminates tumors in mice" – study -- All of these immunotherapy advances are changing medical practice - Some of the T cells even leave the tumor to find and destroy similar growths in the body.

Two-part cancer treatment "eliminates tumors in mice" – study

https://www.rt.com/usa/417602-cancer-vaccine-study-cure-mice/

A two-shot cancer “vaccine” has, according to new research, been wildly successful at attacking tumors in mice.

A clinical trial using the treatment on human patients is now getting underway.

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.

“When we use these two agents together, we see the elimination of tumors all over the body,” one of the researchers, Ronald Levy, said.

Ronald Levy. © Stanford Medicine

 

“Our approach uses a one-time application of very small amounts of two agents to stimulate the immune cells only within the tumor itself.

 All of these immunotherapy advances are changing medical practice

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.

Egilsstaðir, 01.02.2018  Jónas Gunnlaugsson