New leukaemia drug produces ‘very positive results’ in a trial of ‘incurable’ patients
A new leukaemia drug produced ‘very promising results’ in a trial, scientists have said. A team from Great Ormond Street Hospital tested the CAR-T cell therapy ‘CAT-19 CAR’ in 14 acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL) sufferers. CAR-T cell therapies involve taking white blood cells from a patient’s body and engineering them to destroy specific tumours. The patients … Read more