A 52-year-old cancer patient from Oregon, given less than a year to live, has made a full recovery following an injection of billions of his own immune cells.
Within eight weeks of the procedure, the patient’s tumors, which had spread to his lymph nodes and one lung, had cleared. Two years later, he is still cancer-free.
Medical experts are hopeful the process, called immunotherapy, could be a breakthrough in treating and curing cancer.
"This is another example of ethical treatments using a patient's own cells,” said Dawn Vargo, bioethics analyst for Focus on the Family Action. “With therapies like this, life-destroying, embryonic stem-cell research is clearly an idea of the past."
