First published Friday 22 June 2018.
What's next
- The team is looking at the application of these therapies to treat blood cancers like leukaemia and lymphoma, but Dr Foley says this kind of cellular therapy can potentially be used to treat any kind of cancer.
- At the moment, only patients who have exhausted all conventional treatments receive immunotherapy treatments, by which stage their immune cells are usually too damaged to use. Dr Foley hopes the team’s research will show that, by bringing cellular therapy up in the treatment schedule, remarkable results are possible.
- The first phase of clinical trials of NK cell therapy is expected to be in about four to five years.
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