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Its not game-changing. That said, its a great step forward. The T-Cell treatments or CAR-T cell treatments is one of the most promising lines of research in ca
by roberte3 8y ago
Its not game-changing. That said, its a great step forward.
The T-Cell treatments or CAR-T cell treatments is one of the most promising lines of research in cancer treatment. Fred Hutch is doing a lot of research on right now. Seattle Cancer Care (which is associated with Fred Hutch) has an entire floor devoted to CAR-T trials.
https://www.seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-magazine/the-hutch-is-closing-in-on-a-cure-for-cancer/ https://www.seattletimes.com/pacific-nw-magazine/the-hutch-i...
The interesting bit is that this is a successful trial on a solid tumors. CAR-T has shown that its most effective on non-solid tumors or blood based cancers. A few months ago there was a Stanford press release on them doing a combination of injecting solid tumor CAR-T and alcohol, which caused a singular tumor to be attacked and removed.