Cells dripped into the brain help man fight a deadly cancer

Thabnk you my friend.

They had proscribed a similar treatment for me...but when a firend I know who has my same cancer tried it, and several other epople I knew of tried it...it almost killed them and made them very, very sick. Not exactly thst same as this, but along the same lines.

Mine is now inot my lver, my breast, several places in my skin, and several more of my vertebrae.

I have reached a point after the last major surgery and radiation treatment to allow God to let it take its course according to His will. I have reached a point where the treaqtments (and the people I have been workin with are VERY good, top of the line, cutting edge folks who I love dearly) but the treatment has became as bad and hutful as the disease in many ways.

So, they tell me its is terminal now and I have decided not to chase the trials and experiental treatments any more.

Thank you though for pointing this out. You never know, and I treat each thing like this as something to pray about and see if the spirit moves me to change.

it almost killed them and made them very, very sick.

Getting very very sick, sometimes to the point of dying, is a common side effect of treatment with CAR-T cell based immunotherapy. It means the treatment is working and is caused by toxins released into the bloodstream by the dying cancer cells - called 'cytokines'. The greater the tumor burden (number and size of tumors) when starting treatment, the greater the CRS (cytokine release syndrome). It's always temporary and in most cases reversible and can be managed with drugs.

Here is the case of Doug Olson, one of the earliest success stories of CAR-T. Doug had exhausted all options for his leukemia and was ready to face death when his doctor suggested participating in a clinical trial for CAR-T.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cr26AFXiGfI

The cure for cancer is already in our bodies. It's called T-cells. T cells are great at fighting off bacteria, viruses or any other foreign invader that manages to get into our bodies. The problem is when certain cells in our bodies go rogue (cancer cells), the T cells do not see them as a foreign threat . It sees them as one of us. What CAR-T based immunotherapy aims to do is modify the T cells to make them see cancer cells as one of them.

It's the hottest area in immuno oncology right now with hundreds of millions of dollars of venture capital money being poured into it (including Rush Limbaugh's yearly radiothon ).

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