For the first time in the world, a patient with chronic leukemia is being injected with cancer cells in the hope of becoming cancer‑free
On the 27th April 2026, Kristian Vik who has had chronic myeloid leukemia for the last 15 years, was injected with irradiated leukemic-derived dendritic cells (Vididencel) at the Haukeland University Hospital (Bergen, Norway). He was the first patient who received this new active immunotherapy which aims to trigge the immune system to combat cancer cells and render the patient cancer‑free.
Kristian says in an interview by NRK,
It is a bit cool to be the first patient.
Foto: Oddgeir Berland Øystese / NRK
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