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19 Jun 08 (Skin) Cancer Cured?

BBC:

Scientists claim they have cured advanced skin cancer for the first time using the patient’s own cells cloned outside the body.

The 52-year-old man involved was free of melanoma two years after treatment.

US researchers, reports the New England Journal of Medicine, took cancer-fighting immune cells, made five billion copies, then put them all back.

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