🔥First leukaemia patient to get new form of treatment and it looks very very promising.
Oscar Murphy just received 100 million cancer-killing cells in three teaspoons of liquid. Welcome to the future of leukaemia treatment.
Here is how it works and what it means:
The 28-year-old from Bury became the first adult patient with B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia to receive CAR-T therapy on the NHS. His own immune cells were extracted, genetically reprogrammed in a lab, and infused back to hunt down his aggressive cancer.
The science is elegant:
T-cells get modified with a harmless virus to
Oscar Murphy just received 100 million cancer-killing cells in three teaspoons of liquid. Welcome to the future of leukaemia treatment.
Here is how it works and what it means:
The 28-year-old from Bury became the first adult patient with B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia to receive CAR-T therapy on the NHS. His own immune cells were extracted, genetically reprogrammed in a lab, and infused back to hunt down his aggressive cancer.
The science is elegant:
T-cells get modified with a harmless virus to
