While googling a little on cancer, I came across
this article. The article tells about children with
neuroblastoma, how how around 30% of the cases treated with the standard chemotherapy are fatal. The article goes on to discuss how British scientists are testing
immunotherapy along with the standard chemo. According to the article, the
antigens in the medicine go to the cancer cells, then strengthen the immune system so the body can kill the cancer. However, Dr. Peter Brock has this to say about having immunotherapy as the primary weapon in the fight against cancer.
'You have to have got rid of most of the disease. Immunotherapy works by linking on to one cell at a time.'
The immunotherapy is delivered to the children, most of whom are before there 5th birthday, with an IV. It takes a long time, 8 hours a day for 5 days, repeated once a month for 5 months, and the process is extremely painful, so the children are also given morphine while in the hospital.
This research is helped being funded by charities, including Simon Cowell, who is donating money from sales of Christmas songs from the British version of American Idol.
This is pretty sad.. Little children shouldn't have to experience this much pain, especially at a real young age. Good article.
ReplyDeleteGood job, Chase. One comment that I would make is that you don't need to blockquote one sentence. The blockquote feature is called that because it's used for blocks of text. A single sentence can typically just be inserted into your paragraph.
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