{"id":7082,"date":"2012-03-15T17:52:13","date_gmt":"2012-03-15T16:52:13","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ilmelanoma.com\/?p=7082"},"modified":"2026-10-16T10:46:58","modified_gmt":"2026-10-16T09:46:58","slug":"progressive-metastatic-melanoma-11-patients-experienced-complete-remission-with-own-anti-tumor-cells-cd8","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ilmelanoma.com\/en\/progressive-metastatic-melanoma-11-patients-experienced-complete-remission-with-own-anti-tumor-cells-cd8\/","title":{"rendered":"Progressive metastatic melanoma: 11 patients experienced complete remission with own anti-tumor cells (CD8+)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Yee and colleagues extracted CD8+ T cells from 11 patients with progressive metastatic melanoma that was no longer responding to conventional treatment and multiplied them in the lab before re-infusing them back into their bloodstream.\u00a0CD8+ T cells are a type of white blood cell in the body&#8217;s immune system that attacks a protein associated with the cancer.\u00a0Yee, an expert in T cell therapy for patients with cancer, and a researcher in the Hutchinson Center&#8217;s immunotherapy program, told the press:\u00a0&#8220;Our results confirm that if we can develop methods to grow these kinds of cells in the lab, then we can give these high-proliferating, helper-independent T cells to all patients for T-cell therapy.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>Read more: <a href=\"https:\/\/www.medicalnewstoday.com\/articles\/242612.php\" target=\"_blank\">Medical news today<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Yee and colleagues extracted CD8+ T cells from 11 patients with progressive metastatic melanoma that was no longer responding to conventional treatment and multiplied them in the lab before re-infusing them back into their bloodstream.\u00a0CD8+ T cells are a type of white blood cell in the body&#8217;s immune system that attacks a protein associated with [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[952],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-7082","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-ricerca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilmelanoma.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7082","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilmelanoma.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilmelanoma.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilmelanoma.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilmelanoma.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=7082"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilmelanoma.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7082\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10804,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilmelanoma.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/7082\/revisions\/10804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ilmelanoma.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=7082"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilmelanoma.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=7082"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ilmelanoma.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=7082"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}