A team of scientists at Cardiff University say they may have discovered a way to kill breast, lung and prostate cancer, in addition to other types of cancer, thanks to a newly-discovered part of the immune system.
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While looking for new ways the immune system can attack tumors naturally, researchers discovered a T-cell in the blood that contained a receptor able to find and kill a wide range of cancerous cells. After studying the T-cell in the lab, the scientists confirmed that it had the ability to kill lung, blood, skin, breast, cone, colon, prostate, kidney, ovarian and cervical cancer cells. Perhaps even more impressive, the T-cell did not affect normal tissues during the process.
Scientists are still discovering exactly how it works, but it seems that the T-cell receptor interacts with MR1 — a molecule on the surface of every cell in the human body. Researchers believe that MR1 is notifying the immune system by flagging the distorted metabolism occurring inside a cancerous cell. Researcher Garry Dolton told BBC, “We are the first to describe a T-cell that finds MR1 in cancer cells - that hasn't been done before, this is the first of its kind.”
While T-cell cancer therapies aren’t a new discovery, researchers say this T-cell receptor could lead to a universal cancer treatment, which would be a first. The treatment has yet to be tested on cancer patients, however, the process, in theory, would be:
Step 1: Take blood from a cancer patient
Step 2: Extract T cells
Step 3: Genetically modify the T cells to recognize and target cancer cells
Step 4: Duplicate the modified cells in a lab
Step 5: Inject the modified cells back into the patient
If you want to avoid becoming a cancer statistic (and who doesn't?) you may want to familiarize yourself with the metabolic theory of cancer. Each day, some 1,600 people die from cancer in the United States alone. Worldwide, we're looking at a death toll of about 21,000 people daily. So many of these deaths are unnecessary — they're preventable and treatable.
To learn more about non-toxic cancer therapies, read, “Seven Principles of Cancer Treatment.”