Groundbreaking Immunotherapy Study Shows Cancerous Tumors Disappearing Within a Week (VIDEO)

Scientists are celebrating positive results from an immunotherapy study, which showed success in making malignant tumors in mice disappear within a week.

The startling findings were made by a group of scientists at Rice University, in Houston, Texas. The group collaborated with researchers from the University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center and the University of Virginia.

The study, published in the journal Science Advances, was led by Omid Veiseh, an assistant professor of bioengineering at Rice University, and Amanda Nash.

Veiseh explained that the research team had developed tiny “drug factories” — the size of a pin head — which they then implanted into mice with minimally invasive surgery. These implants delivered continuous high doses of interleukin-2, which is a molecule that works with the immune system to help regulate the activities of white blood cells in fighting cancer.

The drug-producing beads were placed beside the tumors or within the peritoneum — a membrane that lines the abdominal wall and covers most of the abdominal organs — ensuring that the drugs were at their highest concentration around the tumor and limiting exposure elsewhere. (Read more from “Groundbreaking Immunotherapy Study Shows Cancerous Tumors Disappearing Within a Week” HERE)

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