“New treatment gets immune system to fight cancer ‘- Focus on News

Saturday, 5 March 2016 – 11:06 Update: 05-03-2016 19:48

In a statement to the researchers, affiliated with University College London, even when the cancer has reached an advanced stage, the body can successfully tackle the tumor. Immunotherapy is seen as one of the most effective treatments for cancer. The difference with other treatment methods is that this therapy focuses on the immune system itself and thus not directly attacking the tumor. The immune system is significantly enhanced or modified by the treatment, which makes immune cells (the so-called T-cells) are better able to kill the cancer cells. This writes scientias.nl

Also rapidly mutating tumors such as lung cancer can be fought in the future. The immune system can potentially recognize and destroy any cancer. The experts claim that they have been found, characterized in that it is in all cancer cells of a given patient and the same can be detected by the system. Per person must then be developed for specific treatment.

One way is to create a vaccine that the immune system “trains” in order to recognize the cancer cells. Another way is the isolation of immune cells by itself already attacks the bad cells, they rear in a laboratory, and they are then put back into the body. The method has not been tested, the researchers hope to begin within two years.