Sunday, June 22, 2008

CANCER A GONER SOON?

Good news - cancer may soon be conquered. Ya there have been treatments before and they mostly resulted in relapses. Also there have been news of wonder drugs by the dozen that have claimed to cure cancer - but that was mostly quack stuff. Now science has finally won the first battle against the disease. Scientists in UK have managed to cure a patient of skin cancer (with no relapses) by grafting immune cells that fight the cancer cell in a petri dish. They cloned these immune cells which were far too less in the patients body and released them in numbers large enough to fight off the cancer cells and eventually clear the cancer growth from the patient. Other than the patient and his pals others can be happy at this because the cure was not a one time lucky thing - this is the gaining of a foot hold in the battle. The success of the cure gives us the direction to proceed!! The answer has been found.

1 comment:

smilingakash said...

Hmmm probably curing cancer completely isn tht far bt wen tht happens it wil surely be epochal...