domingo, 26 de novembro de 2017

Uso de neutrófilos em doentes com cancro?

Injecção por algumas semanas cura? Vai ser testado:
https://www.iol.co.za/lifestyle/health/new-cancer-treatment-using-cancer-survivor-cells-12139127

Citando:
"A radical radical  new cancer treatment inspired by patients who seem to ‘shrug off’ the disease could be tested next year.

The technique uses potent cancer-killing cells from people with the strongest immune systems.

These ‘neutrophil’ cells – which form part of the body’s first line of defence – are then multiplied millions of times and injected into cancer patients.

They are believed to be a key reason why rare individuals spontaneously reject lethal cancers and seem to have ‘miracle recoveries’."
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"But when they do target cancer, they are highly efficient – wiping out 95 percent of test cancer cells in 24 hours. It is neutrophils with this ability that form the basis of the new therapy.

The Lift team has collected thousands of the cells discarded as a waste product by blood banks, and is mass-screening them for their cancer-killing potential in a laboratory.

Those that pass the test are cultured and multiplied many times over using a secret process. The researchers are also working on a way of altering them to become even more potent."