As someone who's at some
As someone who's at some risk for melanoma himself, I think this is a great development: they've created white blood cells in a lab, then injected them into cancer patients, with reportedly startling effectiveness. In one case, the amplified lymphocytes essentially gobbled up two pounds' worth of tumor.
But the AP headline--Cancer Cells Killed In Test Therapy--immediately conjured up in my mind's theater a group of scientists wearing white coats in their high-tech lab, enthusiastically smashing dozens of petri dishes with big hammers while a spokesperson explains: "We felt that a simple, basic approach would produce better results than more complicated therapies, so we went after the cancer cells with brute force."
