[byteCoder]

From my personal experience with advanced melanoma under a trial at NIH almost 12 years ago, Dr. Steven Rosenberg and his research team:

1. Surgically resected a tumor and removed the tumor attacking T cells in a lab,

2. expanded them in a lab to 130 billion,

3. returned them to me after making me immunosuppressed, and

4. kick started my new immune system with high-dose IL-2.

Within three months, my tumors were essentially gone.

I’ve been cancer-free since.

It seems to me that the body doesn’t have enough of the right T cells to fight the mutated, cancerous cells.

[tomohelix]

That is why CAR-T and personalized medicine are some hot topics right now. Essentially, the best medicine and treatment we have often just expand or aid our own body capacity to fight back. Cancer is especially problematic because our body often refuses to fight it.

Training an elite team of cellular terminators is the next step when the local forces are just not adequate anymore. But it is still so expensive.

[Confiks]

Was your case publicized? [1] looks quite similar but is a case from two years earlier. Similar procedure?

[1] https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S000649712...

[byteCoder]

The protocol in linked study appears to be similar to the melanoma therapy I underwent at NIH, except for the CAR-T part.

The study I was part of was published in a few papers, including: https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6295669/