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New Immunotherapy Treatment Removes All Tumors In Woman With Advanced Metastatic Breast Cancer
Research published today in Nature Medicine by scientists at the National Cancer Institute (NCI) has described a new immunotherapy approach, which led to a complete disappearance of tumors in a...
The findings show how naturally-occurring tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs) were extracted from the patient’s tumor, grown outside of her body to boost their numbers and injected back into the patient to tackle the cancer.
- Victoria Forster
- Forbes
The patient had previously received several treatments including hormone therapies and chemotherapy, but nothing had stopped the cancer progressing.
After the treatment, all of the…