According to researchers, a woman who has endured numerous tumours may be carrying within her body the key to developing a life-saving cancer treatment.
According to the British Daily Mail, the 36-year-old patient received her initial cancer diagnosis when she was a young girl. Every two years after then, she has developed a new tumour in various locations throughout her body.
At least 5 of these tumours, including those in the colon, cervix, and brain, were malignant.
Spanish researchers who are keeping an eye on her condition told Sky News Arabia that this woman’s immune system is “extraordinary” at eradicating cancer.
“We think she is the only individual in the world who possesses a genetic quirk that functions as a double-edged weapon,” they said. She possesses an unusual ability to combat malignant growth, but tumours also significantly multiply within her body.
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It possesses two mutations in the gene pad1l1, which, under normal circumstances, results in the death of the embryo before it has the chance to grow in the womb, and they explained this by saying.
“This gene is vital in the process of cell division and multiplication, but the mutations make it falter and start to repeat itself excessively,” they explained.
Additionally, when cells start to divide too quickly, they can develop tumours that frequently progress to cancer.
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The illness that this woman has, according to Marcus Malomembry, head of the Cancer Group at the Spanish National Center for Cancer Research (CNIO), is “extremely unusual and has no name.”
It is thought that further research into this example could reveal “hidden features” of the immune system that could one day help in the development of cancer treatments.
The mystery that perplexed experts was a woman with cancer in her body.
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