Cancer "vaccine" that prevents the disease returning is created

A revolutionary new cancer treatment that remembers the disease and fights it years later has been developed by scientists; the 'vaccine' boosts the body's natural defences and stands guard for a lifetime. A trial in Milan on ten patients who had bone marrow transplants were given the immune-boosting therapy which included memory T-cells; they were found to still be there 14 years later. Furthermore, a team treated 26 patients whose leukaemia was so advanced they had only two to five months to live; after 18 months, 24 of the patients were in complete remission. "These are patients that have failed everything, this is extraordinary. This is unprecedented in medicine", said Stanley Riddell from the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre in Seattle. Data shows that 2.5 million of people in the UK have cancer and 30 children are diagnosed with cancer every week.

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