Cloning could provide skin cancer treatment

[narangz]

Posted Thu Jun 19, 2008 9:26pm AEST

Scientists in the United States say they have successfully treated a man suffering from advanced skin cancer by cloning one of his immune system blood cells to mount an attack on the disease.

The technique involved isolating one of the patient's cancer-fighting T-cells, making several billion copies of it in the laboratory, and putting the cloned cells into his body.

Within two months, scans showed tumours in the man's lungs and lymph nodes had disappeared.

He is still disease-free two years after undergoing the treatment.

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The story is also in today's Hindustan Times. A great news I must say.

[karmanya]

Wasnt that the entire point of cloning? Clone organs, cells and tissues to treat people?

[Faun]

yeah T helper cells are teh killers