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Future Of Cancer ‘Bright’ As Scientists Discover New Therapy
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Future Of Cancer ‘Bright’ As Scientists Discover New Therapy

Don Patrick January 2, 2019

A groundbreaking treatment for cancer which uses immune cells from strangers could save millions of lives in the future, scientists believe.

The treatment, still in its early days, will strengthen the immune systems of patients while avoiding toxic side effects such as those caused by chemotherapy.

The team at the Francis Crick Institute in London now want to set-up the first immune banks which will store the ‘Natural Killer’ cells.

This would allow oncologists to order a batch of immune cells to be delivered to clinics in a matter of hours to then be infused into patients.

Once in the body, the cells would join forces with the patient’s own immune system to fight off tumors using a natural ‘DIY’ approach.

immune cells transplant treatment

A groundbreaking treatment for cancer which transplants disease-fighting immune cells, which attack cancer cells, into the body of a patient from a stranger could save millions of lives

Professor Adrian Hayday, group leader of the Immunosurveillance Lab at The Crick, told The Telegraph: ‘We’re not quite there yet.

‘But that’s what we’re trying now. There is every capability of getting cell banks like this established.’

Professor Hayday added that ‘even a few years ago’ there was little belief cancer could be tackled in any other way than attacking the disease itself.

But now there is a growing field of research and experimental treatments focusing on training patients’ bodies to fight off cancers by themselves.

Experts say this could become more effective than traditional treatments because bodies can adapt faster than medicine companies.

Professor Hayday described the concept as ‘radical’ but added ‘that is what’s happening’ now, with the cells not doing anything other than ramping up the immune system.

Cancer patients will begin to receive pioneering infusions of the so-called natural killer cells as early as next year, according to the researchers.

Professor Charlie Swanton, of Crick’s Cancer Evolution and Genome Instability Laboratory, said: ‘The future is incredibly bright.’

immune cells transplant treatment

The treatment was developed by scientists, led by Professor Adrian Hayday, at the Francis Crick Institute in London

He added: ‘Using the body’s own immune cells to target the tumor is elegant because tumors evolve so quickly there is no way a pharmaceutical company can keep up with it.

‘But the immune system has been evolving for over four billion years to do just that.’

Until now, the idea of injecting someone’s immune cells into another person was dogged by fears the body would reject them.

But this year, in a medical breakthrough, scientists discovered they survive well in the body and are unlike other cells.

The Crick team are now seeing impressive results, particularly because the cells aren’t being rejected by the body, as is the case with some forms of immunotherapy.

Immunotherapy drugs help the immune system work harder to find and kill cancer cells. But there can be side effects because they attack healthy cells, too.

The treatment is said to be the ultimate ‘do-it-yourself approach’ because it uses the patient’s own immune system and relies on no drugs.

In England and Wales, survival rates for ten or more years after cancer are 50 percent, according to Cancer Research UK.

The team at The Crick want to make that figure rise to 75 percent in the next 15 years, and they claim advances in technology will make that possible.

In the US, the five-year survival rate for all cancers combined is improving, and was 69 percent between 2007 to 2013, according to the American Cancer Society.

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