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Vietnam develops cancer treatment using the body’s immune system

by VTV411 October 2018 Last updated at 15:03 PM

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VTV.vn - The 2018 Nobel Prize for Medicine has been awarded to two scientists who discovered how to fight cancer using the body's immune system, Prof. Tasuku Honjo and Prof. James P. Allison, and now this cancer treatment is being tested in Vietnam.

A student of Prof. Honjo, Prof. Dr. Ta Thanh Van, Vice President of the Hanoi Medical University, and his colleagues are developing this work with a new approach.

This method has been clinically tested in more than 20 patients, and has initially obtained positive results.

However, the challenge is that the treatment is very expensive, so it is not yet accessible to all patients.