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Cancer therapy approved by FDA uses body’s own cells as a ‘living drug’

www.washingtonpost.com Cancer therapy approved by FDA uses body’s own cells as a ‘living drug’

A new therapy approved by the Food and Drug Administration supercharges the body’s immune system to kill a kind of skin cancer, opening the door to targeting more common tumors.

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Cool technology but “living drug” is the dumbest possible analogy here.
- But an excellent band name. Imagine "chemo for the soul" by Living Drugs, feat. 4skin
- To be fair, that is a direct quote taken from one of the researchers:
  “The concept that the FDA has now acknowledged is that you can use a patient’s own cells as a living drug to treat their disease, and that to me is a very exciting step forward,” said Steve Rosenberg, a senior investigator for the National Cancer Institute who has helped pioneer the newly approved therapy since the 1980s.
- Something, something, technology indistinguishable from magic, something, education funding, something, something.

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