CAR-T Cancer Treatment Could Help You Live Longer

In a recent article by Andrea Tamayo, she writes about a girl who got cancer treatment 18 years ago when she was four. This treatment is known as CAR-T cell therapy. Since receiving this treatment 18 years ago, she has been labeled "the longest-surviving patient with cancer." Typically, this treatment is used for blood cancers since solid cancers, like neuroblastoma, are usually more challenging to treat with this specific treatment. A clinical trial performed by Helen Heslop proved that CAR-T therapy does work on solid cancer since this is the exact trial that the 18-year-old survivor came from. However, the trial also resulted in only 7 survivors out of the 19 participants. 

In my opinion, I think that this treatment is a step in the right direction to finally find a cure for cancer. Although, there are clearly some adjustments that would need to be made since it currently doesn't help all forms of cancer fully.