الجمعة، 21 ديسمبر 2012

New medical technology to treat cancer


New medical technology to treat cancer


Dr. Khaled bin Abdullah Al-Manea

Experimental cancer treatment showed, which was tested on adult patients last year, promising results in the treatment of leukemia in children.

New treatment depends on the patient's own immune cells to kill cancer cells, where it has been tested that way on 12 patients with blood cancer or leukemia "in the later stages, including ten adults and two children, the researchers pointed to successful treatment with nine patients, including children.

"Stephen told the group," who led the study, said: "this new therapeutic method based on redirect cells of the immune system to attack and kill cancer cells.

"Stephen" in this study used the patient's own immune cells, known as "T-cells" or cells white blood cells that help fight infection in the human body, where these cells extracted from the patient's body and then we genetically geometries to attack cancer cells in blood, and honoured and injected back into the patient's body.

Indicating that cells grown within the patient's body and was able to attack the large amount of cancer cells.

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