Tuesday, April 26, 2005
Cure for leukemia may be just around the corner.
New cancer vaccine research could clear the shadow such diseases cast on a patient's future. For the first time, a vaccine tailored to target leukemia---cancers of blood cells and bone marrow---seems to show a link between immune response and improved survival in patients. Muzaffar Qazilbash, a hematologist at M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, is helping develop the vaccine, which he says may have knocked out cancer cells still present in Shawn Meinkowsky even after a bone marrow transplant was supposed to put Meinkowsky in the clear. "After the vaccination that low-volume disease disappeared and he achieved a complete molecular remission," Qazilbash says.
// posted by Carovatom @ 7:54 PM 
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