"The cells of strangers illuminate the future cancer"

Scientists believe that innovative cancer treatment that uses immune cells extracted from foreigners can save millions of lives in the future.

The treatment, which is still in its infancy, strengthens the immune system of patients while avoiding toxic side effects, such as those caused by chemotherapy.

The research team at the Francis Creek Institute in London, UK, wants to create the first "immune banks" that store cancer-resistant cells. This would allow oncologists to order the delivery of a group of immune cells to clinics within hours, until their injection into patients.

Once they enter the body, the cells fuse with the patient's immune system to fight the tumors using a "natural" approach.

"A few years ago, there was a simple belief that cancer could be treated other than by the attack of the same disease," said Professor Adrian Hedaye, president of the Immunology Laboratory of Crick. There is now an increasing number of experimental therapies and research focused on training the body of patients in the fight against cancer.

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The researchers said cancer patients would receive pioneer lots of so-called natural killer cells early next year.

"The future is incredibly bright and the use of immune cells in the body to target the tumor is great because tumors grow very quickly and no pharmaceutical company can handle them," said Professor Charlie. Swanton of the Crick Laboratory and the Genome Instability Laboratory.

Until now, the idea of ​​injecting immune cells from one person into the body of another patient was worrying about cell rejection. But this year, scientists have discovered "in a medical breakthrough" that the developed cells have been successful in the field of body acceptance.

The Crick team now has impressive results, especially since the cells are not rejected by the body, unlike some forms of immunotherapy.

Immunotherapy helps the immune system work hard to find and kill cancer cells. But can produce side effects as they also attack healthy cells.

Source: Daily Mail