A 13-year-old girl, identified as Alyssa, is now free of 'incurable' cancer after benefitting from a revolutionary type of therapy.
Photo: www.gosh.nhs.ukA 13-year-old girl, identified as Alyssa, is now free of “incurable” cancer after benefitting from a revolutionary type of therapy.doctors at Great Ormond Street Hospital, United Kingdom.
Chemotherapy as well as a bone-marrow transplant were not successful in curing the cancer, and there was reportedly no further treatment option available.She is, however, still being monitored.T-cell lymphoblastic leukaemia is a type of leukaemia that develops from immature lymphocytes, a type of white blood cell. It leads to gene changes that cause the blood cells to grow out of control.
But this method cannot be used for T-cell leukaemia because the T-cells designed to recognise and attack cancerous T-cells also end up killing each other during the manufacturing process before they can be given as a treatment. The final modification gave the T-cells the ability to identify and attack anything with the CD7 marking on it so that it would destroy every T-cell in her body — including the cancerous ones.“This is quite remarkable, although it is still a preliminary result, which needs to be monitored and confirmed over the next few months,” he said.
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