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 Topic: Altered Immune Cells Beat Leukemia

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  • Altered Immune Cells Beat Leukemia
     OP - December 18, 2012, 07:22 PM
    And now, some good news...

    Altered Immune Cells Beat Leukemia


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    PHILIPSBURG, Pa. — Emma Whitehead has been bounding around the house lately, practicing somersaults and rugby-style tumbles that make her parents wince.

    It is hard to believe, but last spring Emma, then 6, was near death from leukemia. She had relapsed twice after chemotherapy, and doctors had run out of options.

    Desperate to save her, her parents sought an experimental treatment at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, one that had never before been tried in a child, or in anyone with the type of leukemia Emma had. The experiment, in April, used a disabled form of the virus that causes AIDS to reprogram Emma’s immune system genetically to kill cancer cells.

    The treatment very nearly killed her. But she emerged from it cancer-free, and about seven months later is still in complete remission. She is the first child and one of the first humans ever in whom new techniques have achieved a long-sought goal — giving a patient’s own immune system the lasting ability to fight cancer.

    Emma had been ill with acute lymphoblastic leukemia since 2010, when she was 5, said her parents, Kari and Tom. She is their only child.

    She is among just a dozen patients with advanced leukemia to have received the experimental treatment, which was developed at the University of Pennsylvania. Similar approaches are also being tried at other centers, including the National Cancer Institute and Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center in New York.

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  • Altered Immune Cells Beat Leukemia
     Reply #1 - December 18, 2012, 08:25 PM
    That's great!
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  • Altered Immune Cells Beat Leukemia
     Reply #2 - December 18, 2012, 08:40 PM
    That's a really interesting approach they've used there. Hopefully they can get a more reliable treatment out of it. Results so far are promising, but a bit patchy. She's one lucky kid. Afro
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  • Altered Immune Cells Beat Leukemia
     Reply #3 - December 19, 2012, 07:27 AM
    That treatment sounds like it was thought up by a freshman biology student in the throes of a fever dream.

    Also, kid had some helluva doctors.
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