Posted on 04/01/2019 4:42:35 PM PDT by BenLurkin
Sally joined a trial at Baylor College of Medicine using a therapy called CAR T. First, doctors removed some of Sally's T-cells, infection fighting white blood cells, and genetically modified them to recognize her sarcoma cancer as being enemy cells that should be destroyed. Millions of those new cells were then put back in Sally's body, ready to search out and destroy the cancer.
Of 10 patients, three have stable disease and two, including Naser, have no evidence of cancer. Two CAR T therapies are already FDA approved for forms of leukemia and lymphoma. The next hurdle is proving it works on solid tumors like lung, colon and sarcoma.
Naser is now a freshman at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst.
"This is the longest that it's been ever without a recurrence," she said. "That gives me hope that you know, the treatment actually worked."
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Re: A friend....took cells from his brother and the fight was on. On Christmas morning, my friend opened his eyes.
My son is going through an autologous stem cell transplant now. It is amazing what they can do.
I do wish him well.
Thank you.
The scariest part was waiting for approval from the insurance company for a procedure that costs over a million dollars.
God bless medical advancement but I am haunted by the movie I am Legend where the cure for Cancer killed off most of the planet.
Im invested with an oncology company that runs out of Baylor research that is called Marker therapeutics. They’re doing a t cell type therapy but different than others that have been approved in that it does not have serious side effects and cost 10 times less. Of course they’re in phase 2 for most of their studies so they have a ways to go. Their therapy so far are mostly towards blood type cancers but they’re also working towards solid tumors as well.
Sounds promising. Right now I’ coming to the end of a six month course of chemo-therapy for CLL. It’s kind of brutal.
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