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CAR-T Cancer Approach Has Surprising Success in Multiple Myeloma
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Jul 03, 2017 - 5:59 pm
Doctors are reporting unprecedented success from a new cell and gene therapy for multiple myeloma, a blood cancer that's on the rise. Although it's early and the study is small -- 35 people -- every patient responded and all but two were in some level of remission within two months. In a second study of nearly two dozen patients, everyone above a certain dose responded. (source: MMDevelopments.org) |
Joined: Jul 2017
Fantastic
That's wonderful to hear that more people can be helped. My mother died of multiple myeloma about 10 years ago. At that time we had heard there were a lot of promising treatments, just not in time to help my mom.
Joined: Aug 2017
Need a pointer
It's great to get a layman's summary of some results from the research literature. But it would be really helpful if you could provide a pointer to the original reference, i.e., the full URL. A pointer to (source: MMDevelopments.org) wasn't very helpful because (1) that site no longer exists. Typing in that link returned a GoDaddy.com parking page. (2) Even if the MMDevelopments.org did exist, your reference didn't tell where on the site I could find more details about the original study.
Joined: Nov 2016
CAR T Cell Therapy for Multiple Myeloma
Here’s a url to info on CAR T Cell Therapy and multiple myeloma, although I am not sure it references the specific study that the OP referred to: https://www.cancer.gov/news-events/cancer-currents-blog/2017/car-t-cell-multiple-myeloma. You can also find further info by Googling “CAR T Cell Therapy and Multiple Myeloma.”
Joined: Jul 2017
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