Cancer cure set for human trials

Scientists are set to test a potential new cancer cure in human trials after it proved successful on mice.

Researchers from Wake Forest University Baptist Medical Centre previously found that the treatment cured 100 per cent of lab mice.

The treatment involves transfusing white blood cells from donors into patients and it has been given the go-ahead by the US Food and Drug Administration.

White blood cells from people who are found to have cells with high levels of cancer-fighting activity will be used in the study.

Zheng Cui, lead researcher, said: "In mice, we've been able to eradicate even highly aggressive forms of malignancy with extremely large tumours.

"Hopefully, we will see the same results in humans. Our laboratory studies indicate that this cancer-fighting ability is even stronger in healthy humans."

The US Food and Drug Administration recently warned 23 companies about "fraudulently" marketing products which claim to cure cancer.