June 30, 2008 Scientists at Wake Forest University Baptist
Medical Center are about to embark on a human trial to test
whether a new cancer treatment will be as effective at
eradicating cancer in humans as it has proven to be in mice. The
treatment will involve transfusing specific white blood cells,
called granulocytes, from select donors, into patients with
advanced forms of cancer. A similar treatment using white blood
cells from cancer-resistant mice has previously been highly
successful, curing 100 percent of lab mice afflicted with
advanced malignancies. I certainly hope that this pans out.