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British scientists have been able to develop a treatment that can fight cancer by using engineering patient cells.
Scientists conducted experiments on many patients who had exhausted all other options and were on the verge of death, and the results were surprising.
During the trials, all signs of cancer disappeared in more than 80% of patients with acute lymphocytic leukemia, the most common cancer in children, after receiving CAR T cells.
The treatment is also being tried in a number of other blood cancers, such as myeloma, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and chronic lymphocytic leukemia..
And T-cell therapyCAR TIt is a form of immunotherapy, using the strength of a patient’s immune system to fight disease.
The new treatment works by extracting immune cells called T cells to search for and destroy cancer cells. The process of making armed T cells is a long, complicated and expensive process that begins by connecting the patient to a device that resembles a dialysis machine, where a sample of his blood is taken, and his T cells are separated, before the rest of the blood is returned to his body..