While Yasser Afatrat rants about Israel using “cancer” bullets, our dedicated scientists have developed a “cancer missile.”
An experimental cancer therapy using lymphocytes taken from any donor that are activated in the lab to become “cancer-killer cells” is showing much promise at Hadassah University Medical Center in Jerusalem’s Ein Kerem.
Transfused into cancer patients whose tumor has already been minimized by surgery, chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy, the technique has defeated the disease in some patients ñ but it will take five years to know if they are cured, said Prof. Shimon Slavin, head of the hospital’s Weisner Department of Bone Marrow Transplantation and Cancer Immunotherapy, who pioneered in this and other innovative therapies.
