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Modified white blood cell cancer treatment has unprecedented success

16-Feb-2016

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90% of terminally ill patients treated went into remission.

Leukaemia patients’ own white blood cells extracted, modified and returned to body.

Genetically modified t-cells engineered to target chimeric antigen receptors.

Reprogrammed to recognise and destroy the patient’s tumour cells.

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Alan Worsley

Communications Specialist at BC Children's Hospital Research Institute.

Stanley Riddell

Member at Fred Hutchinson Cancer Research Center.

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Cancer