Megan Basham, Journalist and NYT Bestselling Author, shared a post on X:
“Just received my first treatment at Patrick Soon-Shiong’s Bioshield clinic. What we did today is designed to strengthen my immune system and teach it to target cancer cells.
It’s a developing technology that has been drawing a lot of attention and Dr. Soon-Shiong has given a number of viral interviews discussing his research. so I figured y’all might be interested in taking the journey along with me.
I am currently still no evidence of disease, but as a stage four patient, I chose this treatment to be proactive and to hopefully prevent a recurrence.
What we did today was my first round of a CEA vaccine. CEA is a protein that some colorectal cancer tumors produce. My tumor was one of them. So this vaccine is designed to teach my immune system to identify any cell that has CEA on its surface and attack it.
The second injection I got is an immunotherapy known as Anktiva. It’s increases natural killer and memory T cells to attack abnormal cells. Like cancer cells.
I will keep you all updated on how I progress and will hopefully do some formal coverage as well. So far feeling fine!”
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