Specialists from the University of Pennsylvania recently presented to the world an alternative treatment for cancer. Their idea is very simple, as, indeed, and all ingenious. Scientists have offered to teach the immune system to fight against cancer cells on its own, as reported by the Internet publication for girls and women from 14 to 35 years old Pannochka. Net This is done in the following way: in a patient suffering from cancer, a small amount of T-lymphocytes is taken - cells of the immune system that successfully destroy all kinds of infections and viruses that get into the body but are powerless against malignant tumors.

These cells are modified in a special way - with the help of the latest technology, scientists supply them with the functions of performing four additional tasks: detecting cancer cells, destroying them, multiplying and living inside the human body.

Such an idea in general is not new, but all the methods proposed earlier, in practice proved to be untenable - scientists could not get the cells of the immune system to work properly. However, scientists from the University of Pennsylvania, apparently, successfully coped with the task. After completion of work on T-lymphocytes, they are injected back into the body, where they begin to instantaneously replicate themselves and fight cancerous tumors. An experimental test for several patients with leukemia gave very encouraging results: approximately 70% had a complete remission, and in 30% of cases the remission was partial.

Experts note the obvious advantages of the new technique: it is absolutely safe, non-invasive, not associated with any side effects, and at the same time, judging by preliminary results, it guarantees a victory over cancer. The researchers themselves are not in a hurry to celebrate the triumph - "So far the new methodology has been tested on too few patients. It is still experimental, and in the near future we plan to test it for more people suffering from various forms of cancer.

"It is also important that if the technique proves effective, it will help not only to effectively treat cancer, but also to prevent its appearance.

The matter is that the modified immune system after treatment will remain in the human body until the end of his life, and it is possible that he can be inherited. It is still too early to say, however, if, on the basis of improved T-lymphocytes, to develop a vaccine concept and vaccinate children after birth, then one can talk about the complete victory of a person over cancer, just as when the plague and other dangerous diseases were eliminated.

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