Honors 396:
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This Honors seminar was a supplement to the second quarter of the Intro Biology series, which focuses on cellular and molecular biology. One of our main activities in the course was to read, summarize, and discuss various scientific papers related to the lecture material. Below is a summary I wrote for the paper: "Treatment of Metastatic Melanoma with Autologous CD4+ T Cells Against NY-ESO-1." This paper is significant to me because it shows my level of thinking and understanding when I was first learning to read complex material from scientific journals; in addition, this particular assignment made me interested in immunology (which prompted me to take an immunology course in my senior year) and oncology (which I am considering as a specialty for my future career in medicine).
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Overall, this study supports the hypothesis that CD4+ T cells from a patient can be cultured with selection for an antigen-specific response and then reintroduced into the patient’s body in order to treat a cancerous tumor. The side effects of such treatment are minimal, the treatment works quickly and for a long period of time (relative to surgical removal, treatment with CD8+ T cells, and some drug treatments), and the treatment is effective in causing tumor regression . . . Overall, the results of this study demonstrate that this procedure has great potential as a cancer treatment and should continue to be researched and modified. |
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