Catholic Culture: Experts say that 90 percent of cancer deaths are on account of the disease metastasizing, or spread. While surgery, radiation and chemotherapy are often effective at treating people with a solid tumor, once the cancer has spread and formed tiny tumors at distant sites, chances for a successful recovery are small to nonexistent.
Mike King and his biomedical engineers have attached TRAIL to immune system white blood cells in order to circulate throughout the body, ready to destroy.
“And so now, in the blood flow, all of your white blood cells become essentially cancer-killing machines. And whenever they bump into a cancer cell that makes its way in the circulation, that cancer cell will go on to die within a few hours,” King says. Read more here.
