Sıraç Dilber

Sıraç Dilber is a Turkish scientist and coordinator of the Center for Cell and Gene Therapy at the Swedish Karolinska Institute. Dilber discovered that cancer patients often lack enough NK cells. The cells are needed to fight against bacteria and cancerous tumours; but even when they are present, they cannot fight the disease effectively. Dilber and his team managed to increase the number of cells by 200, which showed in various experiments to be effective in cancer treatment. In an experiment on humans that lasted for six months, the tumour of one patient with liver cancer had completely disappeared.

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* [http://www.zaman.com/?bl=national&alt=&trh=20061003&hn=37015 Turkish Scientist Takes Huge Step in Cancer Treatment]