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'Cancer-resistant' people lend out their killer cells

By Linda Geddes

19 September 2007

Video: Human granulocytes kill cervical cancer cells

Watch a video of granulocytes killing cervical cancer cells.

Immune cells from “cancer-resistant” people are to be injected into those with cancer to help fight the disease.

Zheng Cui at Wake Forest University of Medicine in Winston-Salem, North Carolina, and his colleagues have received permission from the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to screen people for their ability to ward off cancer. Immune cells from the best cancer fighters will be given to cancer patients, after being matched for blood type.

All of us have some ability to fight cancer, via immune…

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