British Dentist a walking cure for Cancer?

[16starsky]

Just reading the Daily Mail here in the UK, if you go to continuumlifesciences.com, scroll down to the bottom of page to Latest news, there is a very interesting article you might want to read about this man. James Hull.

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[BruceSF]

I read the article, it looked interesting, although it was written in a popular British newspaper and I couldn't find any real journal article references for it.

Basically, the patient has survived a long time from several cancers, including pancreatic. He is wealthy (got into the auto restoration business as a hobby and sold the collection for over 100 million pounds), so he funded some research at a consortium of universities in order to try to find the reason for (his) extremely long cancer survival. They cloned his T-cells and tested them against a variety of cancers from a variety of patients, and his T-cells killed all the tumor cells. Apparently there's something about them that breaks through the cancer's defense. However, I did not see prostate cancer listed as one of the cancers they tested against. The consortium is hoping to analyze around 100 other extreme survivors, and are moving toward tests in mouse models. There wasn't a lot of deep technical detail about the analysis they were going to perform.

[Graham49 in reply to BruceSF]

They seem to be concentrating on studying survivors of cancers that generally kill in less than 5 years. Since there are many survivors of PCa longer than 5 years, this would complicate the study. Nevertheless they might come up with something useful for PCa.

[arete1105]

"For James’s ‘super-charged T- cells’ not only recognise, attack and kill his cancer cells, but also, in the laboratory, do the same to cancer cells taken from other patients suffering from pancreatic, liver, breast, colon cancers and melanoma. As Professor Andrew Sewell, research director of the Institute of Infection and Immunity at Cardiff University School of Medicine, who is involved in the study, puts it: ‘James is not normal. He is not normal at all.’"

A very interesting read- it is seeming to work on various cancers, but they don't know why. But it is based on enhanced immune therapy. Hopefully this can result in positive treatment for all.

This is not the case where others can boost up their immune system and achieve same results, but rather there is something unique about his T-cells that account for their "killer" effect. That is what the scientists are trying to figure out.

[rocket09]

Maybe he eats oatmeal every day.

[billyboy3]

Time will tell boys. I would sure like to see the documented scientifically performed tests etc.

[BruceSF]

Maybe this guy has the super t-cells in the Telegraph article reported by Great John

(Or else he had a slice of John's Roast beef

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[16starsky]

Yes it appears to be the same story, lets hope they get cracking with the trials