A modified version of CAR-T therapy, used to treat leukemia and lymphoma, was found to be safe in two small clinical trials. More research is needed to determine its long-term effectiveness.
A modified version of CAR-T therapy, which is used to treat leukemia and lymphoma, was found to be safe in two small, early clinical trials . The disease has no cure and, according to Dr. Michael Vogelbaum, chief of neurosurgery and program leader of neuro-oncology at Moffitt Cancer Center in Tampa, Florida, there have been no new drug approvals in the past two decades that have extended the lives of patients with glioblastoma.
The two clinical trials published Wednesday were extremely small, conducted on just nine patients in total, and much more research is needed, with larger trials, to determine how effective the therapy might be in the long run. In the two unrelated trials, a novel take on an existing treatment for blood cancer was shown to be safe and it shrank tumors –– at least temporarily. Here's what to know about the Breast Cancer Risk Assessment Tool recommended by Olivia Munn. CAR-T therapy involves harvesting a person’s own immune cells and modifying them in a lab to seek out specific tumor proteins
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