The Adoptive Cell Transfer is (ACT) to provide an invading force of immune cells that can attack tumors in a way that the immune system was incapable of doing on its own.
ACT involves removing some of a patient's own immune-system cells, growing billions of them in the laboratory, and returning them to the patient. The idea is to provide an invading force of immune cells that can attack tumors in a way that the immune system was incapable of doing on its own.
"The results in melanoma have been impressive," said Dr. Rosenberg, who, along with his colleagues in the Surgery Branch of NCI's Center for Cancer Research, has done pioneering work on ACT.
source:
http://www.cancer.gov/ncicancerbulletin/050112/page4?cid=sf4095764
ACT involves removing some of a patient's own immune-system cells, growing billions of them in the laboratory, and returning them to the patient. The idea is to provide an invading force of immune cells that can attack tumors in a way that the immune system was incapable of doing on its own.
"The results in melanoma have been impressive," said Dr. Rosenberg, who, along with his colleagues in the Surgery Branch of NCI's Center for Cancer Research, has done pioneering work on ACT.
source:
http://www.cancer.gov/ncicancerbulletin/050112/page4?cid=sf4095764
