NOTICIA DE LA SETMANA 5: "The woman who develops cancer vaccine"

For years, this researcher has studied the response of patients to bone marrow transplant to treat his leukemia. "If you wonder why some were cured," explains, "you understand that it is a complex reaction involving all branches of the immune system, so probably a homogenous treatment, a kind of one-size-fits-all for all patients, will not work", said Wu in his office in the center of Cancer-Dana-Farber, Boston (USA).

Wu is applying that idea to the development of a vaccine against cancer or, better said, many vaccines against many cancers, as patients. The new generation of immunotherapy drugs are based on wake the immune system so that you learn how to identify and eliminate the tumor cells. Wu looks the way that this response is much more specific and also operates in all people, not just a fraction of them, as it is currently the case.

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Commentary: In my opinión this is a big advantage to people who have cancer.

This is a very good new for the humanity.