Cure For Cancer Near? Terminal Patients In Complete Remission After One Gene Therapy Treatment
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Subject: Cure For Cancer Near? Terminal Patients In Complete Remission After One Gene Therapy Treatment Wed Mar 08, 2017 11:40 am
Cure For Cancer Near? Terminal Patients In Complete Remission After One Gene Therapy Treatment
A groundbreaking gene therapy treatment which boosts a patient’s own immune cells has been shown to clear disease from one third of terminal patients. US pharmaceutical company Kite Pharma released results from the first six months of its trial of the new treatment, called CAR-T cell therapy. Some 36 per cent of the 101 patients on the trial were still in complete remission at six months, and eight in 10 saw their cancer shrink by at least half during the study. “The numbers are fantastic,” said Dr Fred Locke, a blood cancer expert at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa who co-led the study. “These are heavily treated patients who have no other options.”
Cure For Cancer Near? Terminal Patients In Complete Remission After One Gene Therapy Treatment
Subject: Cure For Cancer Near? Terminal Patients In Complete Remission After One Gene Therapy Treatment 
Wed Mar 08, 2017 11:40 am
