Immune cells could be cancer cure
Dr. Zheng Cui of Wake Forest University School of Medicine has been given a green light to begin providing transfusions of immune system cells--called granulocytes--to cancer patients. And Dr. Cui says that his "exceptionally successful" preclinical experiments lead him to believe that this could prove to be a cure for cancer. "If this is half as effective in humans as it is in mice it could be that half of patients could be cured or at least given one to two years extra of high quality life," he told the Telegraph.
Highlighted in the current issue of New Scientist, Dr. Cui found that nearly 97 percent of the cancer cells exposed to certain donor immune cells were killed, while in other cases the kill ratio dropped to as low as two percent. Immune cells from patients over the age of 50 were weaker than others while stress and the time of year also appeared to factor into the efficacy rate. One potential threat to his experiment will be graft-vs-host disease.
- read the article from the Telegraph
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By Nando Speranza | Posted 11:13pm | December 7, 2007
I beleive Dr.Cui is on the right track to a possible cure. But why is this not getting more attention?
By Jessica Lum | Posted 1:02pm | March 13, 2008
Dr. Cui,
Just go for what you believe, trueth takes time for people to understand!
By Nando Speranza | Posted 8:20am | March 14, 2008
After having researched more extensively into Neutrophil Infusion Therapy for a possible cancer cure, I am now convinced more than ever, that this is the path that all cancer reseachers should be on in their efforts to develop a cure. People have suffered enough with outdated poisonous treatments that do little to enhance the physiological and psychological state of a persons health. There has been enough money spent on cancer research. There has been no noticable advances. There has been no cures for any degenerative diseases during the last 30 years of any significance. This is because the drug companies control the reasearchers and only wish to treat not cure these serious human conditions. The time is at hand to shout for the cure!
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