ATLANTA - An Oregon man, given less than a year to live, had a complete remission of advanced deadly skin cancer after an experimental treatment that revved up his immune system to fight the tumors.

The 52-year-old patient's dramatic turnaround was the only success in a small study, leading doctors to be cautious in their enthusiasm. However, the treatment reported in Thursday's issue of the New England Journal of Medicine is being counted as the latest in a small series of successes involving immune-priming treatments against deadly skin cancers.

"Immunotherapy has become the most promising approach" to late-stage, death-sentence skin cancers, said Dr. Darrell Rigel, a dermatology researcher at the New York University Cancer Institute in New York who had no role in the research.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20080618/ap_on_he_me/med_mel...PmewWlZrcbXc0Q6s0NUE


Helloooooooooooo those doctors are just now figureing that out!!!! The immune system plays the most immportant role in keeping our bodies healthy and fighting off diseases in our bodies

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Originally posted by Jemeyes:
Helloooooooooooo those doctors are just now figureing that out!!!! The immune system plays the most immportant role in keeping our bodies healthy and fighting off diseases in our bodies

The story said something about this dating back 20 years. It also said he had been treated earlier with drugs which may explain why he was the only success.

And to think, the ACS was saying 30 years ago that "A cure is right around the corner."

I've learned since then that they'll say anything to con people into giving them money.