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COMMUNITY: Archives celebrate milestone /A3 NEWS: Oak Bay passes new community plan /A4 ARTS: Local artists join Paint in the Park /A17
OAK BAYNEWS Friday, September 12, 2014
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Cutting-edge treatment targets cancer BC Cancer Foundation seeks $4 million to fund clinical trial Laura Lavin News staff
Oak Bay News owner David Black, hosted the announcement of a funding campaign to support clinical trials of a new cancer treatment at his Oak Bay home this week. “This is a cutting-edge form of treatment,” said Dr. Brad Nelson, Director of the Trev and Joyce Deeley Research Centre. In 10 years of research at the centre, Nelson and his team are prepared to begin clinical trials of a form of immunotherapy called “It’s an entirely new adoptive T cell therapy, or ACT. approach to cancer The therapy involves treatment. It’s using the taking a patient’s cantumour, after it’s body’s own defences to cerous been removed, and harfight (cancer) but with vesting T cells in the lab. “(We can) pull out the some help from science immune cells, in particu– and it’s working.” lar the T cells that are in the tumour, and are try- Dr. Brad Nelson ing to fight that tumour – having a ground battle if you will – and we can take those T cells and grow them in the lab … get them all ramped up and revived and in very large numbers and give them back to the patient in an IV bag as an infusion.” Those T cells then enter the blood stream and circulate throughout the patient’s body, wherever cancer cells may be trying to hide, whether it be in the bone marrow, liver, or other organs. Those T cells will be able to find the cancer recognize it and destroy it, he said. PlEASE SEE: Philanthropy the driver for ‘exciting research,’ Page A8
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David Black and Dr. Brad Nelson, Director, Deeley Research Centre, BC Cancer Agency - Vancouver Island, chat at Black’s Oak Bay home before a special update on immunotherapy cancer research taking place at the BC Cancer Agency’s Vancouver Island Centre.
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