Stimulates the immune system, cures itself from cancer

Canadian scientists have found a mechanism to stimulate the human immune response to fight cancer.

Canadian scientists have found a mechanism to stimulate the human immune response to fight cancer.

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Cancer can be treated with a mechanism that stimulates a human immune response.

This finding could help find a new treatment that uses only the patient's own cells to find and destroy tumors.

According to Dr. Pamela Ohashi, lead researcher at Toronto Princess Margaret Hospital, if a treatment is found, the cancer will be just like regular flu colds. At that time, the human body attacks tumors, not chemotherapy or other complex therapies.

Mr. Ohashi and his colleagues combined a naturally-occurring Interleukin-7 (IL-7) vaccine in the human body and a protein that helps white blood cells fight disease.

The new vaccine has helped prolong the lives of experimental mice with pancreatic cancer. Untreated mice died after 80 days, while mice treated with IL-7 vaccine survived for up to 120 days.

The researchers found that IL-7 helps white blood cells to reach the point where the tumor is and work more effectively in attacking tumors.

IL-7 has the ability to work throughout the body, so this treatment can be applied to many types of cancer.

Currently the world has developed many types of vaccines to prevent brain, lung, skin, kidney and other types of cancer, such as HPV vaccines currently used by many young women to prevent cervical cancer. .

However, most cancers are not caused by viruses, so researchers are looking for ways to stimulate the natural immune response of humans to attack cancer when they appear in the body. /.

Update 14 December 2018
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