T-cell immunotherapy

MY ex SIL has undergone two operations, both last year for bowel cancer and liver cancer and still undergoing treatment. Let's hope there will be a big break through very soon.

Forgive me for injecting a note of cynicism into this thread but tabloid papers - and particularly the Mail - do love a good "miracle cure for cancer" story, where they sex up a paper from an academic journal in an attempt to boost cover sales. Looking at this story, it seems likely that it may eventually provide a therapy for treating leukaemia and other "liquid" cancers, in which case it will be a genuine break-through, but a wider application for cancerous tumours is a long way off, and may never be practicable.

The good news about cancer treatment is that, year after year, survival rates improve because of new drugs and developments in treatment and that more and more people are living with cancer, rather than dying of it. Personally I don't think that there is likely to be a sudden discovery of a miracle cure, just ever-improving therapies and survival rates.

Don't get me wrong: I would love there to be a "cure" - my mother died quite young from an aggressive malignant brain tumour - but I hate the cynicism of tabloid rags that toy with people's hopes and fears, just to sell a few more papers.

Rant over.