The apparent success of the therapy could be a major step forward in the treatment of not only pancreatic cancer, but other cancers as well.
The apparent success of the therapy — which involves tweaking the genes of immune cells so that they attack tumor cells — could be a major step forward in the treatment of not only“I’m really excited about this,” said Dr. Carl June, who more than a decade ago pioneered a different type of immune therapy for certain blood cancers. June was not involved with the new report.
“I thought, ‘That is the trial I want.’ I knew that that was the trial that was going to save me, save my life. I just had that feeling,” Wilkes said. The T cells were then multiplied billions of times in a lab, before being delivered back in Wilkes’ body via a single intravenous infusion., the form of treatment developed by June at the University of Pennsylvania.
Pancreatic cancer is one of the deadliest forms of the disease. It’s rarely found before it spreads and therefore is more difficult to treat. Only aboutare expected to survive five years after diagnosis, according to the American Cancer Society. But the mutation is not limited to just pancreatic cancer, said Dr. Eric Rubin, the New England Journal of Medicine’s editor-in-chief. The therapy, he said, therefore has the potential to be used against a variety of cancers.
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