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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Health
Storm Newton

One-time therapy may be ‘transformative option’ for treating deadly skin cancer

Some 20,800 new cases of melanoma are diagnosed in the UK every year, according to Cancer Research UK (Jeff Moore/PA) - (PA Wire)

People with a deadly form of skin cancer could live longer with an innovative one-time treatment that harnesses a patient’s own immune system to fight the disease, researchers have suggested.

Almost one in five patients with advanced melanoma survived for five years after receiving lifileucel, with tumours shrinking in the majority of cases, a trial has found.

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