A new therapy approved by the Food and Drug Administration supercharges the body’s immune system to kill a kind of skin cancer, opening the door to targeting more common tumors.
Cancer therapy approved by FDA uses body’s own cells as a ‘living drug’::undefined
To be fair, that is a direct quote taken from one of the researchers:
“The concept that the FDA has now acknowledged is that you can use a patient’s own cells as a living drug to treat their disease, and that to me is a very exciting step forward,” said Steve Rosenberg, a senior investigator for the National Cancer Institute who has helped pioneer the newly approved therapy since the 1980s.
To be fair, that is a direct quote taken from one of the researchers: