Cell Therapy

Making the most of lymphopenia may offer new treatment avenues

Published in Cancer Weekly, August 20th, 2002

A study undertaken by investigators at the Scripps Research Institute (TSRI) suggests a new, potentially more effective way to battle cancer - hit the immune system with cancer vaccines or cancer cells when it's down, and it will bounce back swinging harder than ever against those cancer cells.

The technique involves administering an injection of fresh immune cells to replace the ones that die immediately after chemotherapy or irradiation. An injection of cancer cells at the same time serves as a form of "immunotherapy," which induces a person's immune system to attack existing colonies of those cancer cells.

In this technique, the fresh immune...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2002-08-20)

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