June 30, 2008

Cancer treatment tested on human patients

A treatment that has successfully cured cancer in mice, is about to be tested for the first time on humans. The treatment has been developed by researchers at the Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Centre in the US.

The process involves the white blood cells, in particular the granulocytes which are used as a transfusion. This was exactly how the test was made for the mice. They had mice that had been used on the to the extent that it cured the cancer one hundred per cent of the time.

The trials have been given the go ahead by the US Food and Drug Administration; this will mean that the human cancer patients will be given the white blood cells from younger people who have been tested to see if they have the immune system which can produce cancer fighting cells.

Source [Science Daily]