Doctors want to give their cancer patients every chance. But are they pushing off hard talks too long? – STAT
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Doctors want to give their cancer patients every chance. But are they pushing off hard talks too long?
STAT “In the oncology community, there’s this concept of ‘no one should die without a dose of immunotherapy,’” said Dr. Eric Roeland, an oncologist and palliative care specialist at University of California, San Diego. “And it’s almost in lieu of having … |
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US clears breakthrough gene therapy for childhood leukemia
KHOU The Food and Drug Administration said the approval on Wednesday was historic, the first gene therapy to hit the U.S. market. Made from scratch for every patient, it’s one of a wave of “living drugs” under development to fight additional blood cancers … First Gene Therapy Treatment Approved in USSmithsonian FDA approves a ‘historic’ new type of leukemia treatmentToday.com Leukemia-fighting gene therapy has ups (it usually works) and downs ($475K price, brutal side effects)The Mercury News FDA.gov –National Cancer Institute –Novartis all 511 news articles » |
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CRISPR–Cas becoming more human
Nature.com In the past few years, the CRISPR–Cas technology has been developed to precisely edit genomic DNA; so far, these approaches have been used mainly in cultured cells or in animal embryo models, but only a few studies have reported their use in human … |
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Good Question: How Does Gene Therapy Work?
CBS Minnesota / WCCO Good Question: How Does Gene Therapy Work? The FDA approved CAR-T Wednesday as the first type of gene therapy in the United States. But just how does it work? Heather Brown answers this Good Question (2:04). WCCO 4 News At 10 – August 31, … |