Cancer patient cured with his own immune system

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Researchers at the Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center have developed a new cancer immune therapy by using large numbers of a patient's own T-cells (a special type called helper CD4 cells) to fight tumors.

The researchers collected some of these cells from the patient, cultured them, and injected five billion of them back into the patient. The treatment removed the tumors within two months.