Yourself vaccinated against certain cancers, it might just be in the future. Scientists have a large step towards the development of a universal vaccine against the disease.
In an article in the scientific journal Nature reveals the international group of researchers that developed vaccine can help with the immune system attacking cancer cells. There were pieces of the ' DNA ' of the cancer cells, and then placed in fat particles in the blood of three patients at an advanced stage of the disease to inject.
T-CELLS in a patient whose skin cancer had spread to the lungs, the researchers saw a stagnation in the growth of the tumors. At the second person was the tumor smaller and a recently operated patient was seven months after administering the vaccine ' clean ' explained. That's according to researchers because the vaccine provokes a strong reaction of the so-called T-cells, immune cells that fight infections in the body.
POSITIVE STEP the researchers call it a "positive step", not least because the vaccine is extremely versatile. "This kind of vaccines are very cheap to make and to make up for almost any kind of cancer", is there to read. "That makes it a universally usable vaccine against cancer."
"We know that the immune system to fight cancer cells is easy to manipulate," said Helen Rippon, Director of Worldwide Cancer Research in front of The Independent. Though dominates the view that on a larger scale research needs to be done to prove the operation of the vaccine.
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