T-cells, center, bind to beads which cause the cells to divide. The beads, depicted in yellow, are later removed, leaving pure T-cells which are then infused into cancer patients, in this image provided by Dr. Carl June.
(Credit: AP)(CBS/AP) A new leukemia treatment has experts buzzing over a possible cure that may one day change cancer treatment forever.
How does it work? According to experts, the treatment is a gene therapy that turns a patient's own blood cells into assassins that tracks down and destroys cancer cells.
They've only tested it in three patients so far, but the results were noteworthy. Two patients appear cancer-free a year after treatment, and the third patient still has some cancer but is improved.
"It worked great," said study author Dr. Carl June, professor of pathology and laboratory medicine at the University of Pennsylvania. "We were surprised it worked as well as it did."
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