An experimental brain cancer treatment has shown promise in the patient who tried it is alive after a year of treatment. This type of treatment was meant for leukemia and lymphomas but now scientists are trying the same treatment for brain cancer.
This treatment involves the immune system that beats cancer on its own. The name of the treatment is named Immunotherapy and it is not tested for prostate, colon, and breast cancer. A new report has shown that this type of treatment can be used for brain cancer too.
The man who tested this experimental brain cancer treatment is a 50-year-old and has glioblastoma, a very aggressive form of brain tumor. This man was treated with radiation, anti-tumor drug therapies, and even surgery. None of these treatments were effective because its cancer came back and it also spread.
The researchers tried this treatment for this man. In order to test this treatment, the researchers extracted immune cells from the man. After that, the researchers engineered the cells to express proteins that would destroy the tumor cells.
The immune cells were injected into the brain. This was the first time that these types of cells were injected into the brain. This can be extremely dangerous and this is why nobody tried this before. After less than 4 months the tumors started to get smaller. After 6 months of the treatment, all tumors disappeared.
“If we can do the same for other patients, that would be an amazing accomplishment that many decades of work and research on glioblastoma have never done,” says Badie, the leader of the study.
The patients did not experience any health problems after the treatment and he has recovered. This is not the only one who participated in this trial. On this trial participated 9 people. All of these people has similar results.
The researchers mentioned that they want to make more tests in order to make sure that this can be used to treat people who have brain cancer. This can be a revolution when it comes to brain cancer because there is little chance of survival for these patients. Let’s hope that the next trials go even better than this one.
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