Cancer 'Cure' In Mice To Be Tested In Humans

Scientists have been testing this method of cancer treatment with mice for well around a decade now. It started when they took some white blood cells from a mouse and its offspring that had proven unusually resistant to cancers, and put the granulocytes into mice with advanced tumors. According to the article, they have had an exceptionally high success rate with this method. Should this prove feasible, blood drives across the world will clamor for the blood of the young and the fit.

Well, more than they already do.

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.

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