The woman has more than 10 years of remission cancer after suffering a pioneering treatment

Car-t cell therapy was done when she was four years old

A woman has cancer in remission 19 years after undergoing a pioneering treatment with Car-T cells, When using patient defense cells. According to researchers, the patient is the longest remission of the cancer shown.

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The case was published on Monday 17, in the scientific journal “Medicine of Nature”. The patient was only four years old when he received treatment at the Texas Pediatric Hospital in 2006.

Although the type of cancer that had not detailed, the researchers detailed that standard treatments could not contain the disease, which had already spread to the bones and the prognosis was rather negative. Today is the mother of two children and is free from the disease.

Car-t cells are immune cells designed to produce a protein called “chimeric antigen receptor (car)”. It is designed to cling to a cancerous cell, triggering the immune cell to attack and destroy it.

According to experts, over the years, Car-T cells have produced significant results of cancer that develop blood, such as leukemia, for example. Since 2017, seven Car-T cell therapies have been approved by the Us Food and Drug Administration And some of the first patients have been free from the disease for over a decade.

The desire is now to repeat this success against solid tumors, such as neuroblastoma, nerve cell cancer that has many cases in children. But the results obtained are already seen as good news.

Source: Terra

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