Question: How, very simply, do you plan to treat cancer with a patients own cells?

Natasha Myhill answered on 6 Nov 2017:

So, the immune system is made up of white blood cells that try to attack foreign cells in the body, such as bad bacteria. There are a few of these cells which recognise cancer cells and try to kill them, but in such few numbers, they don’t work very well. What the company I am working with does is take the patient’s tumour, extract the tumour-killing cells, grow them up to HUGE numbers in the lab and then give them back to the patient. These cells are now in such a high number that they can actually attack and kill the tumour – pretty cool! This therapy is successful in about 50% of patients, which is actually a really good response rate 🙂