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Treatment with immune system caused remission in incurable leukaemia

CAR-T therapy gives hope for the children for whom the standard therapies don't work

02-Sep-2019

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Acute lymphoblastic leukaemia affects around 400 children in the UK each year.

CAR-T therapy cleared previously incurable disease in 12 of 14 patients after three months.

Five of fourteen patients remain leukaemia free.

In CAR-T therapy the body’s immune system is used against the malignant cells.

Trial had done at the Great Ormond Street Hospital in London.

Research had published in the Nature Medicine journal.

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Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH)

Children's hospital for special care.

Nature Medicine

Scientific Journal providing information from all areas of medicine.

Persis Amrolia

Professor of Transplantation Immunology.

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