Marcus Butler, M.D., Dana-Farber Cancer Institute (IMAGE)

Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

Marcus Butler, M.D., Dana-Farber Cancer Institute

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Marcus Butler, M.D., and his Dana-Farber colleagues report they have developed a technique -- a form of "adoptive immunotherapy" -- that can enable anti-tumor T cells to survive in melanoma patients’ bloodstreams for well over a year, in some cases. The results represent the longest that injected anti-tumor T cells have ever endured in cancer patients without the use of supplemental treatments.

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