Cancer patients have been cured after medics turbocharged their blood’s immune cells in a lab.
Two adults with leukemia have been in remission since 2010 after Car-T therapy.
It involves removing blood and genetically modifying its white cells so they target cancer.
The resulting Car-T cells are re-injected in a type of immunotherapy which uses the body’s immune system to attack tumors.
Levels of the cells in the two cured patients remain high.
Dr. Carl June, of the University of Pennsylvania, said: “Based on these results, we can conclude that Car-T cells can cure leukemia.
“These cells continued to demonstrate tumor-killing characteristics.”
Patient Doug Olsen said medics could not find any cancer after a few weeks. He said: “I knew the doctors weren’t sure but I was pretty convinced that I was done with cancer.”
The NHS offers Car-T to some children with leukemia and adults with lymphoma.
It warns the therapy can make the immune system overreact or trigger side effects such as fever, vomiting or breathing difficulties.
This story originally appeared on The Sun and has been reproduced here with permission.
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