Posted on 11/05/2015 1:13:06 PM PST by amorphous
A baby whom doctors thought almost certain to die has been cleared of a previously incurable leukemia in the first human use of an "off-the-shelf" cell therapy from Cellectis that creates designer immune cells.
One-year-old Layla had run out of all other treatment options when doctors at Britain's Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) gave her the highly experimental, genetically edited cells in a tiny 1-milliliter intravenous infusion.
Two months later, she was cancer-free and she is now home from hospital, the doctors said at a briefing about her case in London on Wednesday.
"Her leukemia was so aggressive that such a response is almost a miracle," said Paul Veys, a professor and director of bone marrow transplant at GOSH who led the team treating Layla.
"As this was the first time that the treatment had been used, we didn't know if or when it would work, so we were over the moon when it did."
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i think with modern technology this is the real deal, but i feel like i’ve been reading, ever since i could read, about this or that treatment that cured cancer.
perhaps it has come a long way in 40 years.
GF had breast cancer and surgery and chemo were used. just like 40 years ago.
Great news.
Promising.
As my wife died young of liver cancer, I am always happy to hear of breakthroughs in treatment.
That said, this is pretty scary stuff and I cannot help but think of how wrong this could go in a Resident Evil sort of way.
But the drugs have changed, the management of nausea is better, but still you are right. You’d think it would be farther toward a cure or vaccine by now. I had BC myself but only had to have radiation and have passed the big 5 yr mark clean as a whistle. People knock mammograms, but that is what saved me.
Wow wow wow!!!!
IMO, government regulation and the AMA has contribute to greater numbers dying from illnesses than not.
I believe the cure to be a mega dose of deregulation.
A friend of mine got transfusions from his brother and they both came out of it okay. Though he now has curly hair like his brother.
This is an exciting development.
God Bless You
Stuff happens. Hopefully this treatment will be the success it appears to be.
Prayers for your GF dp. Hope she is doing well and free of that most dreaded disease of women everywhere.
God Bless
Lol, that’s funny. Glad they’re doing well! :-)
Wow, sounds like my cousins. Stem cells from his brother cured him.
A not terribly relevant experience from my family:
An in-law, once removed by marriage, had straight hair before chemo and radiation for lymphoma. Fortunately, it was successful, but her hair came back in curly.
Maybe it wasn’t the transfusion that caused the change in hair texture, but rather some other part of the treatment?
Agree with the down thread comment, how long ago could this have been possible without the crippling regulations laid on everything by the feds.
Blame over-regulation and a centrally planned healthcare market from the local to the national level. It’s anti-innovation. You cannot even take experimental drugs if you’re terminal without government permission.
We need to start with a market for blood and kidneys. Then we’ll at least begin to relieve the shortages there.
Yep
That’s not uncommon after chemo. The hair may regrow but it can be very curly and/or wiry (tough and thin), and a completely different colour as well - even when it had previously gone grey!
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