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FANTASTIC: Woman’s Advanced Breast Cancer Completely Cured With Her Own Immune Cells

Hank Berrien

For those women who are fighting against breast cancer, here’s a fantastic story that should raise their spirits: a 49-year-old woman whose breast cancer had metastasized through her body so far that she was planning her own death has been completely cured by treatment that used her own immune cells to destroy the cancer cells.

Judy Perkins, an engineer from Florida, has now been cancer-free for two years after the treatment, which worked in these steps, as reported in the journal Nature Medicine:

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