British scientists have come close to creating cancer vaccines - the most feared disease of humanity today, by discovering how to "speed up" the immune system to attack evil cells.
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Researchers from Cambridge University have discovered how cancer cells protect themselves from the body's barrier. By breaking this process, they believe that the human body can heal itself.
Previously, similar ' immune-stimulating ' efforts failed because of a protein in the human body such as protection - even nourishment - evil cells.
But when the researchers break the protein, the tumor loses ' bodyguard ' and is destroyed by the body's immune system.
Currently, this process has been proven successful in mice. However, the team believes it will have similar results in humans.
Professor Douglas Fearon, the lead researcher, said this is an "important step " that can radically alter the current cancer therapy.
' I am very excited by this work. Maybe we found a huge piece of a puzzle game. The study is only in the early stages, but not too far away when it comes to thinking that what is seen on tumors in mice will also be found in the same form of human disease , "he told the Telegraph .