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Page last updated at 07:55 GMT, Thursday, 19 June 2008 08:55 UK

'Great step' in cancer treatment

Scientists in the US have successfully treated a man suffering from advanced melanoma by cloning some of his own blood cells.

Dr Cassian Yee, who led the team at Seattle's Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Centre, describes the research which UK cancer specialist Professor Karol Sikora calls a "great step" in cancer treatment.

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