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Seen At 11: Promising Treatment Uses Patient’s Immune System To Fight Cancer – CBS New York

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2017-05-17 NEWS

CBS New York

Seen At 11: Promising Treatment Uses Patient’s Immune System To Fight Cancer
CBS New York
Better yet, some of the CAR T-Cells may actually stick around to fight a recurrence, Dr. Hunger explained. “A one-time treatment can certainly lead to at least five years of survival, and we hope can lead to cures,” Dr. Hunger said. After battling

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2017-05-17 NEWS

KSAT San Antonio

SA mom’s ability to use own stem cells as medicine in Texas closer to reality
KSAT San Antonio
SAN ANTONIO – An emotional fight for a San Antonio mom to use her own stem cells as medicine is one step closer to a win for her and other advocates. Giggles echoed through the quiet street outside Stefanie Cowley’s house as her son Tyler sat on her

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2017-05-17 NEWS

Seattle Children’s innovating immunotherapy to help treatment last longer
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Seattle Children’s hospital is working on a new approach aimed at making reprogrammed immunotherapy cells stay active longer. The hospital has had success using immunotherapy to treat pediatric leukemia, but it has not proved long-lasting for all

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2017-05-17 NEWS

News-Medical.net

Spanish scientists develop promising gene therapy method to treat Wilson’s disease
News-Medical.net
Scientists at the Center for Applied Medical Research (CIMA) at the University of Navarra (Spain) have designed a promising gene therapy method to treat Wilson’s disease, a rare pathology caused by the lack of or malfunction of a gene. The gene therapy …

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2017-05-16 NEWS

Ottawa Citizen

It worked! Jonathan Pitre’s transplant takes root
Ottawa Citizen
With those words, Jonathan Pitre hugged his mother, Tina Boileau, and shared his joy and relief at learning the news late Tuesday afternoon that his stem cell transplant has worked. Blood tests revealed that all of the new white cells in his

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