It’s been hard to miss the recent media coverage of the result of a clinical trial by researchers in America, reporting that a man with advanced melanoma (a form of skin cancer) has been successfully treated using his own immune cells.
The story’s been spread by headlines such as “Man beats skin cancer after being treated with five billion clones of his own immune cells”
“Clone cell cancer ‘cure’ hailed” and “Cancer ‘cured‘ by cell clones” . Cancer Research UK’s team of spokespeople have also been busy doing radio and TV interviews, explaining the science behind the story.
But what have the researchers actually done – and is it really a “breakthrough” and a “cure” for melanoma?
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