On June 18, 2008, The New England Journal of Medicine reported that a man with advanced-stage skin cancer made a full recovery after receiving a treatment which used his own cloned immune cells to attack the disease in his body.BBC News: Clone cell cancer 'cure' hailed
Cell Cloning
The 52-year-old's melanoma had metastasized (spread) to his lymph nodes and one lung. The patient was injected with billions of clones of his own immune cells, and was cancer-free within eight weeks. He remained in remission two years later.Telegraph.co.uk: Cancer patient recovers after injection of immune cells
Immunotherapy
While there are existing treatments designed to prompt the host's immune system to battle cancer, the cloning method is unusual. Researchers cautioned that the treatment required large scale clinical trials before it could be marked as a major breakthrough.Telegraph.co.uk: Cancer patient recovers after injection of immune cells
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