The treatment that I think you are referring to is a modification of the patient's immune system. The patient's cells are removed and genetically modified with a type of HIV virus. The patient's modified cells are infused. Subsequently, these modified cells will attack cancer cells.
This treatment is using the patient's immune system to attack cancer cells.
An autoimmune disease is a condition resulting when the body's immune system mistakenly attacks and destroys healthy body tissue.
These are two very different situations and that is why the cancer treatment will not work to correct an autoimmune disease.
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Hello annahurt52,
The treatment that I think you are referring to is a modification of the patient's immune system. The patient's cells are removed and genetically modified with a type of HIV virus. The patient's modified cells are infused. Subsequently, these modified cells will attack cancer cells.
This treatment is using the patient's immune system to attack cancer cells.
An autoimmune disease is a condition resulting when the body's immune system mistakenly attacks and destroys healthy body tissue.
These are two very different situations and that is why the cancer treatment will not work to correct an autoimmune disease.
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March 24, 2014 - 5:35pmMaryann
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