Cancer Immunotherapy is the scientific breakthrough of 2013

"Cancer Immunotherapy is the scientific breakthrough of 2013 '
Science magazine is very hopeful about a new cancer treatment, in which the immune system of the patient is adjusted.

"Cancer Immunotherapy is the scientific breakthrough of 2013 '
Cancer Immunotherapy is the most important scientific breakthrough of 2013. That at least will find the journal Science. Though research is only in its early stages, the magazine calls the tests with the therapy very hopeful.
The method entails, according to Science revolutionized the way physicians perceive cancer. While traditional oncologists the tumors themselves irradiated in the treatment of the disease, in cancer immunotherapy is the immune system of the patient so adjusted that it is strong enough to fight. The tumors themselves

Two types of
In one type of cancer immunotherapy, the T-cells from a patient, genetically modified, so that they recognize cancer cells, and go to fight. T-cells are white blood cells that serve the immune system. Researchers treated 75 leukemia patients according to that method. In 43 patients, the cancer went into remission afterwards.
In a second type of cancer immunotherapy, the T cells will be "unlocked" in order to combat tumors. Effective This is done by administering the antibodies. In a study in which the second method, the tumors shrank in 29 percent of patients with kidney cancer and in 31 percent of patients with skin cancer.