Cancer-killing cell bank
Man who lost his mother to cancer raises funds for pioneering cell treatment
Alex Blyth has raised more than £250,000 through crowdfunding
A MAN who lost his mother to cancer is hoping to make a pioneering treatment widely available.
Alex Blyth, 40, wants to launch the world’s first bank of tumour-killing white blood cells.
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He was spurred to seek a cure when his mother got pancreatic cancer.
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Mr Blyth used the work of an expert who matched cells from people with natural cancer immunity to tumour sufferers.
He found these can be made in a lab, removing the need for donors.
Mr Blyth, of Brighton, who has raised £250,000 through crowdfunding, said: “It gives us the basic building blocks for a whole new type of innate cell therapy.”
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