A new treatment on the horizon

The problem with any...

...treatment other than using the patient own immune system is that cancer cells are hard to distinguish from healthy cells on the physiological level. Immun cells could specifically target cancer cells. 

The other problem is that if you kill cancer cells too fast without the body regenerating the area at the same time the area may become a big hollow mess. This is why Avastin causes intestinal perforations. It chokes cancer cells by limiting the blood vessel formation to them (great!) but if the area is not reconstructed at the same time there is a mess of dying cells with all their toxicity and demaging to the organ.

They have to find the way to mark cancer cells to make them recognizable to the patient's immune system and nice and slowly kills these cancer cells while the organ is healing itself at the same time. 

Or at least if they could prevent the cancer cells breaking up and or recolonizing at an other location would make treatment so much easier too. 

Remember: cancer cells are the ultimate surviving organisms. A perfect life form that multiplies, spreads and It can not die.

To bad for us, mortals.

Laz

JanJan63 said:

Interesting idea, thanks for

Interesting idea, thanks for sharing!

Among others, there is Keytruda:

www.biospace.com/News/fda-bestows-merck-co-s-keytruda-with-breakthrough/397267

and from China:

http://myinforms.com/en/a/18475987-as4s4-combined-therapy-in-gastric-and-colon-cancer/