Science3-year-old reportedly cancer-free a year after engineered immune-cell treatment
A post says Baylor College of Medicine researchers treated liver cancer that had spread to a child's lungs and stopped responding to chemotherapy.
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According to the post, researchers genetically modified the child's own immune cells to target the liver cancer, adding immune-boosting proteins intended to help the cells survive inside solid tumors. It says the cancer disappeared after two outpatient doses without severe side effects, and scans a year later showed the child remained cancer-free.
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3-year-old reportedly cancer-free a year after engineered immune-cell treatment
A post says Baylor College of Medicine researchers treated liver cancer that had spread to a child's lungs and stopped responding to chemotherapy.