New UNC research reprograms cells to kill cancer
Posted Jul 31, 2015
A new research program at UNC seeks to harness the power of the body's immune system to kill cancer, and it’s already helping patients like 7-year-old Phineas Sandi. Phineas’ life has been anything but normal after what appeared to be a lingering cold turned out to be acute lymphoblastic leukemia. “We’d already lost one child to a different kind of leukemia,” said Phineas’ father, Carlos Sandi.
(WRAL.com)
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