Immune cells from healthy people pulverise cancer
Immune cells from healthy individuals can be the new immune cure for cancer.
Photo: Yngve Vogt, UiO
This treatment can kill cancer cells without destroying neighbouring cells. The hope is to eradicate cancer for ever.
Today’s cancer vaccines are unfortunately not a cure.
“The vaccines are based on stimulating the patient’s own defence system to attack the tumour. In spite of the tremendous research efforts over the last decades by researchers all around the world, the results have been limited,” comments Professor Johanna Olweus at the Immunology Institute at the University of Oslo. Together with her research team, she has found a completely new way to use the immune system to attack cancer.
Read the whole story in Apollon, University of Oslo's popular scientific research magazine