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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.