'This is the first time a scientific article explicitly discusses the possibility of curing multiple myeloma. These are patients who previously had almost no remaining treatment options.'
The discovery involves a chemical that can refocus the immune response in people with multiple myeloma, a blood malignancy that affects plasma cells that produce antibodies.
In the future, tissue could be taken from boy cancer patients who undergo aggressive chemotherapy, or men with certain infertility problems, and used to produce sperm.