Gene therapy and melanoma
- From: J <nexsw@nvalid,anon>
- Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2007 08:35:02 -0400
This is an older one, but they've just posted on the prostate newsgroup
that a woman with mild arthritis (not cancer) went in for gene therapy and
died from the procedure.
J
http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/health/5304910.stm 1 September 2006
Gene therapy rids men of cancer
For Mark Origer, 53, the treatment destroyed his tumour, enabling him to
attend his daughter's wedding.
The US National Cancer Institute team in Bethesda has also shown it can
manipulate immune cells to attack breast, liver and lung cancers.
The modified T cells persisted in 15 other patients treated, but their
malignant melanomas remained.
Q&A: Cancer gene therapy
Before the experiment, the patients were expected to only live for three
to six months because their disease was so advanced.
For Mark Origer, 53, the treatment completely eliminated his skin cancer
and another tumour on his liver shrunk enough that it could be removed
surgicall
Another man, aged 39, was able to clear the cancer that had spread to his
liver, lymph nodes and lung.
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They don't tell us the rest of the story.
How the other man is doing and whether he's still alive
J
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