Stanford, CA — There may be fresh hope on the horizon in the battle against cancer, as researchers at the Stanford University School of Medicine have developed a new treatment that has had remarkably positive results on mice.
The treatment is a form of immunotherapy — using the body’s own defense system to fight off pathogens — and involves injecting a “vaccine” made of two types of immune-stimulating agents directly into tumors.
Researchers found that by using this method, tumors in mice were completely eliminated within 10 days. What’s more, the team discovered that within 20 days, even tumors that hadn’t been treated had vanished.
The treatment is novel in, among other things, its specificity. Individual types of cancer can be targeted, with the vaccine being adjusted accordingly. In the case of Stanford’s experiment with mice, for instance, the disease was lymphoma.
In the study, published in Science Translational Medicine, all but three of the 90 mice treated were cured of the cancer on the first try. In the few cases where that didn’t happen, tumors were eradicated after a second injection. The vaccine did not, however, affect other types of diseases in the animal’s body.
In addition to being a relatively inexpensive form of treatment, the team’s method is also far less invasive. Other types of immunotherapy require the activation of the body’s entire immune system, and some even require that cells be removed from the body and genetically engineered before they can fight off cancers.
“Our approach uses a one-time application of very small amounts of two agents to stimulate the immune cells only within the tumor itself,” Dr. Ronald Levy, professor of oncology and senior author of the study, told Stanford Medicine News Center. “In the mice, we saw amazing, bodywide effects, including the elimination of tumors all over the animal.”
Of the two immune-stimulating agents that make up the vaccine, one is already approved for use in humans. The other has been tested in unrelated clinical trials. A trial has already been launched to test the effectiveness of the Stanford treatment on human patients with lymphoma.
If all goes well, Levy says, the new treatment could be a game-changer in how doctors approach the treatment of cancers:
“I don’t think there’s a limit to the type of tumor we could potentially treat, as long as it has been infiltrated by the immune system.”
Immunologist Keith Knutson of the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Florida, who was not involved with the research, told Science Magazine that, at a minimum, the findings open up new doors.
“This is a very important study,” Knutson said. “It provides a good pretext for going into humans.”
Drew Pardoll, an immunologist at the Bloomberg-Kimmel Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy in Baltimore, Maryland, who was also not involved in the study, was especially struck by the fact that the vaccine targets tumors in the body that aren’t even directly treated.
“The data is very impressive, particularly for the uninjected tumors,” he told Science Magazine, adding that the Stanford researchers “deserve a lot of credit” for their work.
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I hope this will be put in use to humans soon. Resteemed
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Thanks friend!
The real question is: what other new 'trendy hip' illness do you get from the vaccine? In some cases the cancer itself came into the body from yet another vaccine, or as a result of a combination of vaccines.
Please stay away from vaccines! When my dad was given 2 months to live for terminal cancer we used Gerson Therapy at home for free..... in 4 months he was in full remission! They have a clinic in Tijuana mexico or it can be done at home. Book is the gerson therapy and it gives step by step instructions!!! ..... pubmed stated it has 100% cure in stage 1 and 2 and 90% for 3 and 4 stage!!!!! My doctor in Europe has been curing patients with it for 30 years withgreat success!!!! Cancer is a business. You will never get a cure in the U.S.
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Nice post.good news and nice technology.
Dios que alegría, gracias por tu descubrimiento amigo que bueno que a través de esta vacuna se puede prevenir el cáncer.
medical science is upgrated day day,thaks for sharing this news
Medical science is only to create expensive drugs. It will never bring cures. If you want those go to the least crowded spaces where smart people go
Great news, hope this Vaccine will be in use soon.
Be careful what you wish for, when it comes from an industry that needs to make profit of your illnesses.
Mind, they do never make profit of a healthy person.
Vaccines have killed my dad and injured me. You better research what they inject before you get so excited
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STOPCancer, of course, is the name of many diseases, not just one. It is likely this is not a universal therapy yet.
The solution has got to be through building up our own immune system. Crazy how we now kill everything with chemo just to make sure. Years from now we will be wondering why we even started that way. Good article. Here's hoping...