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  • Cancer-Fighting Cells

    09/19/2002 8:24:53 AM PDT · by NYer · 31 replies · 514+ views
    Associated Press - direct feed | September 19, 2002 | PAUL RECER
    WASHINGTON (AP) _ Flooding the body with laboratory-engineered white blood cells shriveled melanoma tumors in a small group of seriously ill patients, leaving some virtually free of the disease, according to researchers at the National Institutes of Health. A team led by Dr. Steven A. Rosenberg of the National Cancer Institute used amplified lymphocytes _ the body's white blood cells _ to attack melanoma tumors in 13 patients. Ten of those patients are still alive, four are ``virtually cancer free'' and two others have experienced ``substantial'' shrinkage of their tumors, Rosenberg said. Rosenberg, who has spent years developing ways to...