Cancer - aggressive cancer survivors may hold the key to a cure

[Zombie]

Interesting item just caught my attention on the local ITV news about a retired dentist, Dr James Hull, who has contracted four different kinds of cancer (bowel, pancreatic, liver and skin) since 2010 and survived them all despite being told by doctors that he was unlikely to survive. 

 

When he later questioned doctors he was told he was just “lucky”. But he didn’t accept that and believes there is something about the white cells in his blood, the T cells, that is unusual.

 

He has been funding research, started in 2018, by six universities looking into not just his white cells but those of other survivors of aggressive forms of cancer (he can afford to - he made a lot of money out of dentistry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Hull)

https://www.itv.com/news/2020-01-28/i-m-trying-to-find-the-cure-for-cancer-says-man-who-fended-off-disease-four-times/

“Dr Hull is funding a study by six universities to investigate why some patients with advance cancer remain well after treatment. 

The team are particularly interested in those who've had aggressive forms of cancer who've remained free of the disease without treatment for five years or longer.”

The email address is: cltsstudy@continuumlifesciences.com

 

 

 

Edited January 29, 2020 by Zombie

[Guest]

You’d think someone else would have found this line of research to be of interest before. Why some survive cancer while others don’t. They’ve studied why some people live longer lives than others…