Jul

23

Tobacco could help treat cancer

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As per latest research by US researchers that a personalized vaccine made using tobacco plants — normally associated with causing cancer rather than helping cure it — could aid people with lymphoma in fighting the disease.

The treatment, which would vaccinate cancer patients against their own tumor cells, is made using a new approach that turns genetically engineered tobacco plants into personalized vaccine factories.

Dr. Ron Levy said, “This is the first time a plant has been used for making a protein to inject into a person,”

He added, “This would be a way to treat cancer without side effects, the idea is to marshal the body’s own immune system to fight cancer.”

They were working on a type of cancer known as follicular B-cell lymphoma, a kind of non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma that attacks the immune system. The cancer makes a specific antibody that is not found in healthy cells.



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