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Melanoma Cured by Cloning Patient's Own Immune Cells

Immune system boost wipes out tumors

By Rob Quinn,  Newser Staff

Posted Jun 19, 2008 6:11 AM CDT

(Newser) – Scientists eliminated a man's late-stage melanoma by giving the body's own defenses a massive boost, Scientific American reports. They removed infection-fighting white blood cells from the patient's body, cloned them in the lab until they numbered in the billions, and injected them back into the...   Read full story »

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