A possible cancer cure

Some scientists may have found a universal cure for cancer. This is brilliant and a wonderful possibility, but let's see what happens in three or four years before we get too excited. It is heartening, though, to think that we might be able to wipe out the nation's third leading killer.

Cancer cure 'may be available in two years'
The Telegraph

Cancer sufferers could be cure with injections of immune cells from other people in two years, scientists say.

US researchers have been given the go-ahead to give patients transfusions of "super strength" cancer-killing cells from donors.

Dr. Zheng Cui, of the Wake Forest University School of Medicine, has shown in laboratory experiments that immune cells from some people can be almost 50 times more effective in fighting cancer than in others.

Dr. Cui, whose work is highlighted in this week's New Scientist magazine, has previously shown cells from mice found to be immune to cancer can be used to cure ordinary mice with tumors.

The work raises the prospect of using cancer-killing immune system cells called granulocytes from donors to significantly boost a cancer patient's ability to fight their disease, and potentially cure them.