The Power of the Immune System Against Cancer
July 8, 2007 by Gloria Gamat
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
According to ongoing research, cells of the immune system can be trained to have the capacity to circulate throughout the body and attack cancerous cells.
This definitely sounds like the body’s natural mechanism to attack cancerous cells. How exactly can this be done?
…the new program will allow researchers to continue advancing methods by which immune activating cells from humans are modified in the laboratory and infused into patients where they will trigger other immune cells to seek out and destroy cancer.
The said research program is led by McMaster University’s Jonathan Bramson in order to accelerate the work in this …read more
Provenge® (sipuleucel-T) and Prostate Cancer
June 3, 2007 by Gloria Gamat
Filed under Diseases & Conditions
The cancer immunotherapy Provenge® (sipuleucel-T) is currently being investigated in patients with early stage recurrent prostate cancer who have a rising serum prostate specific antigen (PSA) level, but whose cancer have not yet metastasized.
Results of the said study as presented by Oregon Health & Science University Cancer Institute revealed:
sipuleucel-T did not significantly delay the time it took for a patient’s PSA to reach a value of 3 ng/ml but it did show a prolongation in prostate-specific antigen doubling time (PSADT)
though not statistically significant, there was a trend observed in slowing the time to metastatic disease for patients who received sipuleucel-T …read more




