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A new cancer treatment
Jul. 1st, 2008 10:36 amThis is worth reading:
New treatment cures advanced tumors in mice
LIFT is an investigational new cancer treatment that will transfer naturally-occurring cancer-killing activity (CKA) in the granulocytes of a selected donor into the body of a cancer patient.
For the upcoming study, the researchers are currently recruiting 500 local potential donors who are 50 years old or younger and in good health to have their blood tested. Of those, 100 volunteers with high cancer-killing activity will be asked to donate white blood cells for the study.
I looked up the study. I would volunteer to be tested as a possible donor -- it would be worth it just to know if my white blood cells do have the cancer-killing activity they're looking for -- but the hospital is in North Carolina so I guess I won't.
New treatment cures advanced tumors in mice
LIFT is an investigational new cancer treatment that will transfer naturally-occurring cancer-killing activity (CKA) in the granulocytes of a selected donor into the body of a cancer patient.
For the upcoming study, the researchers are currently recruiting 500 local potential donors who are 50 years old or younger and in good health to have their blood tested. Of those, 100 volunteers with high cancer-killing activity will be asked to donate white blood cells for the study.
I looked up the study. I would volunteer to be tested as a possible donor -- it would be worth it just to know if my white blood cells do have the cancer-killing activity they're looking for -- but the hospital is in North Carolina so I guess I won't.
