Cancer cure 'may be available in two years'

[Iggy Dalrymple]

Cancer cure 'may be available in two years'

Cancer sufferers could be cured with injections of immune cells from other people within two years, scientists say.

US researchers have been given the go-ahead to give patients transfusions of “super strength” cancer-killing cells from donors. http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/main...=/news/2007/09...

But perhaps there's an even bigger discovery here.

Beginning in 2003 when Wake Forest researchers announced the discovery of a cancer-proof mouse, there was something odd about their report. The tumor-resistant mouse was discovered in 1999, but the discovery wasn't reported till 4 years later. Why the delay in airing such a remarkable discovery?

Then later, researchers reported they had bred around 800 mice that carry the same cancer-cell killing immunity as their ancestor, meaning this trait is genetically transferred to offspring, probably by a single gene.

Since humans and mice share 98% of the same genes, there was hope that a parallel gene could be found in humans that would confer immunity against cancer. But no gene array studies have commenced, or if they have, they are being kept in a laboratory closet. At the time, researchers said there would be vigilant pursuit to find the gene. But so far, nothing.

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