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To: little jeremiah
It costs $500k or more.

The cultivating of the T-cells is specific to the individual patient, and their tumor.

It has to be done by hand.

That's why India is trying to figure out how to automate the process.

The other issue is the immune system goes so apesh*t over killing the tumor, it can lead to a cytokine storm.

But there are cases of patients with inoperable stage 4, given days to live, who made a complete recovery...in a few days.

341 posted on 03/07/2020 3:47:22 PM PST by grey_whiskers (The opinions are solely those of the author and are subject to change with out notice.)
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To: grey_whiskers

Thanks for info; I thought I read about something similar that was not quite as stratospherically expensive.


343 posted on 03/07/2020 3:51:09 PM PST by little jeremiah (Courage is not simply one of the virtues, but the form of every virtue at the testing point.)
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