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British Woman Celebrates a Year of Living Free from AML

Posted by rflamm on Fri, 21 Aug 2009

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It’s been a year since fashion designer Joanne Scott went through a cancer treatment that changed her life — and made history to boot.Ms. Scott, 54, was the first person in the world to receive an injection of tumor-activated natural killer (TaNK) cells as a treatment for leukemia. Her doctors at the Royal Free Hospital in London recommended this experimental therapy after two years of traditional treatments, including chemotherapy and a bone marrow transplant, failed to keep her in r... Read More

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acute myelogenous leukemia | AML | cellular therapy | NK cells |

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