Scientists to Test New Cancer Treatment on Human Patients in 2019
“A new cancer treatment that uses the body’s own immune system to fight cancer is scheduled to start human trials in 2019.
The U.K.’s Telegraph reports that the new treatment, devised by researchers at the Francis Crick Institute in London, uses implanted immune system cells from strangers to fight tumors, instead of old-school cancer treatments like chemotherapy — a new tack in oncology that the researchers say could boost cancer ten-year cancer survival rates from 50 percent to 75 percent…”