In August of 2017, Dr. Stephan Grupp, who is
the director of cancer immunotherapy, at the Children’s Hospital of
Philadelphia, announced a new treatment under research for leukemia. This
treatment is called Kymriah, and its goal is to give patients who have
undergone a relapse of leukemia, specifically B-cell acute lymphoblastic
leukemia, a second chance at survival. Instead of undergoing additional
radiation, chemotheraphy, or other forms of treatment, Kymriah focuses on gene
therapy. This form of treatment modifies a patient’s own immune cells; the
cells get sent to a lab and are genetically modified using chimeric antigen
receptor T cell therapy. CAR-T’s aim is to give a patient’s cells the ability
to detect and kill cancer cells. This is incredibly interesting, because a patient's own genes are modified and have the capability to save their own lives. Of those involved in the clinical trial, those among children and teenagers had a
very successful reaction to the form of treatment. Almost 90% of patients
undergoing the use of Kymriah survived the following six months, and nearly 80%
of those patients survived the following year. This set of treatment is
currently seeking approval for July of 2018, and may revolutionize the
treatment of blood cancer.
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