New drug helps the body defeat the cancer of the skin

New cure for skin cancer It uses its own "killer cells" of the body that lead to tumor self-destruction. The creators of the drug are scientists from Oxford University.

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A cure for cancer   IMCgp100 with a fundamentally new mechanism of action developed in England. Scientists were able to make T-cells of the body, which are sometimes called "killer cells" infections attack the malignancy. Clinical Trials medications have shown that some patients with skin cancer tumor size It decreased significantly. Now scientists think about how to use this mechanism for drugs against other types of cancer, including breast and lung tumors.

"I think we can count for much, - says one of the founders Cancer Drugs Professor Mark Middleton. - The first phase of clinical trials showed that IMCgp100 It works as predicted, and it has a significant clinical activity. It is very, very impressive. We observed a rash and inflammatory processes in tumors in our patients taking the drug, and it is said that their immune system began to destroy cancer cells. "

Scientists were surprised and duration of action of the drug, since the degree of inflammation tumors reached after only a single injection, was impressive and long. Self medication works by transforming themselves into protein antigens fixed on the surface of cancer cells. It is for him the body then strikes with the help of T cells.

In the near future IMCgp100 It will be tested on a larger number of patients in the US and the UK. (READ MORE)

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