White blood cells from cancer-resistant mice cure cancers in ordinary mice

[RyanJ]

Cancer is one of those most feared diseases, having no known cure and being almost impossible to get rid of... but an unusual breakthrough in the study of mice with cancer has shown that it may be possible to cure cancer in people!

 

Scientists have injected white blood cells from mice that became resistant to cancer into mice that were known to have cancer, and in a short space of time these white blood cells killed the cancer - and even more than that, it actually prevented mice that should have caught cancer from actually getting it!

 

This is a stunning breakthrough, as this means theoretically that if we can understand the mechanism by how this works it could potentially open the door and finally make cancer a disease that we can win the battle against.

 

http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2006/05/060509094714.htm

 

- Ryan Jones