New Hopes for Cancer Research | TopNews New Zealand

Researchers are putting in their best efforts and brain to help tackle cancer with the help of patient?s own body cells. If the experiment passes, cancer research would definitely get a big victory against the illness.

Surface of tumor cells is usually hard to destroy or even reach to by the immune-cell attack but blocking these so-called "don't destroy me" signals can help the professionals slow the growth of several human cancers, says the researchers, when they ran the experiment on mice.

The approach was recently ran by immunologists at the Stanford University School of Medicine, who concluded from their findings that the experiment had mark a success against ovarian, breast, colon, bladder, liver, prostate and brain cancer cells.

Researchers hope that they find similar results upon repeating the work in people as well. Hopes are higher and fingers are crossed to get the positive results from the experiment, as this would prove a big victory of science in cancer research, with the help of which, doctors will get a newest and the most effective approach to fight against cancer with the patient?s own marshal defender cells.

The most important key in the entire procedure is a cell protein called CD47, which is found on the cell membranes and help in daily functioning of the red blood cells. Researchers are already investigating the protein for the treatment of leukemia, reports confirm.

While running experiment over the animals, researchers injected the antibodies in their bodies in order to bind them to CD47 and block out its protective signal.

"If we can block this signal, we can get the immune system to eat [the cancer cells] up", said Mr. Stephen Willingham, a postdoctoral researcher in the laboratory of immunologist Dr. Irving Weissman at Stanford and first author of a paper about the work.

Source: http://topnews.net.nz/content/221896-new-hopes-cancer-research

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