Doctors are researching a fourth way to fight cancer, using the body's immune system to fight off the cancer cells. Kiley Law Group can help you determine liability and get you the compensation you deserve for your child's injuries or death – 1-800-410-2769.

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$ 3.5 million Settlement for
auto injury

Our eighteen-year-old client was driving on an interstate into the early morning sun. As he drove over a rise in the road, he struck a car that was disabled and stopped in the middle of the road because a 150-pound wheel and tire detached from a tractor-trailer rig traveling in the opposite direction. The lugs holding the tire had broken off, causing the tire and wheel to travel across the median strip, and hit and disable the stopped vehicle.
Awarded: $ 3.5 million

$1,000,000 Jury Verdict for
86 year-old woman

Our client an 86 year-old woman sustained an injury after being struck by a bus. The inattentive bus driver was warned by a passenger that the woman was crossing in front of the bus but could not stop in time to avoid impact.
Awarded: $1,000,000

$785,000 Settlement for
crushed ankle

Our client was operating his motorcycle on a two-lane road when a large box truck made a U-turn into his path of travel. The client attempted to avoid the collision by laying his motorcycle on its side. Unfortunately his lower leg and ankle came in contact with the truck causing seven fractures and soft tissue injury.
Awarded: $785,000

DISCLAIMER: Please note that every case is different and these verdicts and settlements, while accurate, do not represent what we may obtain for you in your case.

Doctors research immune therapies to fight cancer

A new method of fighting cancer is getting support from some doctors. According to an article in The Boston Globe, doctors are researching how to use the body's own immune system to fight off cancer cells.

This immune therapy approach is called a vaccine, although it is used to treat cancer, not to prevent it. Experimental vaccines were presented at the American Society of Clinical Oncology's annual meeting and were targeting prostate, melanoma, and neroblastoma cancers, described in the article.

Guerilla warfare

According to the Globe, the oncologists at the annual meeting described the immune therapy as guerilla warfare. They explained that the body's immune system has problems identifying cancer cells because the cancer cells are the body's own cells, not foreign cells like flu cells so the immune system has trouble recognizing a problem and doesn't immediately attack the cancer cells, said the Globe.

According to the Globe, the doctors at the cancer conference said they had found a vaccine that was able to stop a form of lymphoma from getting worse for more than a year, but they couldn't predict how long this would last. The researchers are not calling this vaccine a cure for cancer, but a possible option in treatment.

Another possible treatment

In a related article in Science Daily, researchers have found that using an anti-diabetic drug boosts the immune system and helps cancer treatments. The researchers were from McGill University and the University of Philadelphia, led by Dr. Russel Jones at McGill's Goodman Cancer Centre and Dr. Yongwon Choi at the University of Pennsylvania. According to the article, they found that the drug metformin used to treat diabetes improved the immune system's white blood cells and this then helped cancer and virus-fighting vaccines.

Researchers think this finding could lead to new vaccines and immune cancer therapies.

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