Wednesday 30 January 2013

A Cancer Fighter


 
 Novel T-cell behavior can be a cancer fighter:
A Cancer Fighter
Researchers have little opportunity to use their own T-cells in the body to fight cancer and destroy find work. Clinical studies have been conducted and some people, the participants were entered complete remission with this exciting and innovative approach. This is known as "gene therapy," and the researchers worked furiously to try for years, ways to use the body's own cells, reprogrammed to fight and kill cancer cells are found.
A clinical study at the University of Pennsylvania was conducted in treated participants who suffered from leukemia. One of the participants, especially a man who participated in the study with leukemia and his life changed for the better. Chemotherapy is not effective for your condition. A few weeks after the operation, he was in complete remission, found no signs of lymphoma cancer. Now, a year later and still in complete remission. Two other patients in this study. It was another complete remission of leukemia and the third party had a partial remission result. These results are very promising and making plans to perform gene therapy trials.
Procedure: This test involved the removal of millions of individual T cells. T-cells are white blood cells in the human body whose function it is to fight against the virus and to destroy tumors. Once these T cells are removed, they are genetically reprogrammed with new genes. These new genes seek actually teach T-cells and to destroy cancer cells in the body. The patient is then reinvested.
Doctors who are not part of the test, however, suggest that there a Cure. They say the treatment is still experimental and not concentrated in a small number of patients. This article is written in the New England Journal of Medicine and Science Translational Medicine. Many researchers are very excited and think it is an important achievement in the field of gene therapy for cancer.
This method was able to use most of its own immune system to destroy cancer cells. Investigators are trying to determine whether other types of cancer can respond to this gene therapy.
Physicians with these investigations and tests have also said they were surprised by the results of complete remission. While this is still experimental, the researchers hope to replicate this study and see how it reacts to other cancers.
Tumor destruction by T cells: Scientists are trying to figure out how to get these modified T lymphocytes destroy tumors. This particular study at the University of Pennsylvania who have been able to achieve this by getting to be a population of cells "memory" T "in the body is able remultiply if necessary have, because it recognizes seem conducted the development of cancer cells.
Changing the concept of gene therapy genetically T-cells of the body actually began in the 1980s with the research in Israel. Over the years, much research continues in this area and it seems that make scientists remarkable progress. The researchers hope that one day soon, this "deadly" cancer cells T "effectively destroy cancer and will be available as a treatment option for people with this terrible disease.
The potential dangers of T-cell therapy: Although this research is incredibly promising, but there are some inherent dangers there. A person can be venerable to infection because the treatment is the healthy and destroy cancer cells simultaneously, in this case, a wipe leukemia patient first put the entire population of B cells physicians these patients with caution as periodic infusions of immune building to prevent infections.
Another danger is the large number of dying cancer cells at once. This can affect the liver and kidneys and can lead to "tumor lyses", a life-threatening reaction. The doctors are in this problem by drugs that help to protect the kidneys, while this process is underway.
There may be other reactions that can be fatal, because everyone is unique and changing T cells can target cancer cells throughout the body. Therefore, if there is a cancer in the lungs, the lungs are overwhelmed and the patient may develop respiratory problems that can be dangerous. In addition to the side effects of this treatment include between high fever and inflammation.
Future researchers should be treated excited about the future of genetically modified T-cell therapy and even destroy cancer. Although it may take years, the hope is to improve the treatment and they are accessible to all who can benefit. There are many obstacles, including how this treatment might of the pharmaceutical industry commodity. Until then, researchers have been working hard and are grateful for the amazing results of complete remission, who have already achieved in many patients with leukemia.




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