Immunotherapy with CAR T cells results in exceptional patient recovery – Medical Xpress

In a clinical trial evaluating a novel immunotherapy option for cancer treatment, a child with rhabdomyosarcoma, a form of muscle cancer, that had spread to the bone marrow, showed no detectable cancer following treatment with chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells that were engineered to target the HER2 protein on the surface of the cancer cells.
The trial, conducted by researchers at Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s Hospital and Houston Methodist Hospital, was recently published …

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