ISLAMABAD – The dread and fear of the fatal disease, cancer, has alwaysbeen there. More than its consequences and the changes it causes in day today life, its treatment, which includes chemotherapy and radiation, is whatbrings chills down the spine.
But it may soon have an easy and painless prevention as researchers andhealth experts at Stanford University have developed a compound which wheninjected into a tumor helps in destroying it.
Not only this, the good news is that this vaccine can also kill all theother cancerous masses present in the body.
This compound has been first successfully tested in mice. After thissuccessful experiment, it may soon be available for human trials.
This compound is a combination of two agents. These agents help instimulating the immune system and spark body’s reaction in mice.Eventually, it destroyed cancer cells not only where the vaccine wasinjected but also far from the injection point.
The treatment is now considered successful and according to researchers,will soon be available for human trials.
Initially, it will be tested on 15 patients, suffering from lymphoma. Asresearchers have got the positive result from animal testing, they hope tosee encouraging results from human testing too.
They also revealed that out of 90 mice, who had lymphoma, 87 werecancer-free and that too after the first treatment. What’s more motivatingis that remaining three also got rid of cancer after the second shot.
This new method targets specific immune cells that can be reactivated tofight cancer cells. Ronald Levy, professor of oncology and lead author ofthe study said, “I don’t think there’s a limit to the type of tumor wecould potentially treat, as long as it has been infiltrated by the immunesystem.” – TNN