The UK Telegraph is reporting a big step forward for cancer "immunotherapy:"

A cancer patient has made a full recovery after being injected with billions of his own immune cells in the first case of its kind, doctors have disclosed.

They're being careful not to say the man was cured, but its a remarkable recovery for a guy that was pretty far gone. It was advanced skin cancer that had spread to his lymph nodes and one of his lungs. Apparently he's healthy now.

This is a similar therapy to that proposed by Dr. Zheng Cui. Dr. Cui has proposed that the healthiest immune cells might be found outside of the patient - in the bodies of young healthy immune cell donors who are found to have particularly strong anti-cancer immune systems. These donations would be collected seasonally because it seems that sunlight makes a significant difference in the potency of our immune systems.

Last November Phil had the opportunity to interview Dr. Cui both in print and for the FastForward Podcast (here's the show, here's the show notes).