According to new research from The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia and the University of Pennsylvania, two children with an aggressive form of childhood leukemia achieved a complete response after being treated with an innovative cell therapy.
Tag Archive: leukemia
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Mar 07 2013
CHOP Researcher’s Innovative Immune Therapy Featured on The Doctors
The innovative work being done by CHOP’s Stephen Grupp, MD, was recently featured on the CBS show The Doctors. Dr. Grupp, the Center for Childhood Cancer Research’s director of translational research, discussed his trial using immune therapy to treat an aggressive form of childhood leukemia, acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL). While roughly 85 percent of ALL …
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Dec 13 2012
Fire with Fire
We had to share — check out this amazing Focus Forward film on the recent T cell therapy treatment!
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Dec 09 2012
Leukemia Patient Cancer-Free After Novel Treatment With Engineered Immune Cells
Cancer therapy for children has come a long way over the last several decades, and the cure rate for some forms of pediatric cancer is at an all-time high. Although this success rate offers tremendous hope and optimism, there are some children whose disease fails to respond to conventional treatment, leaving doctors to explore novel …
Permanent link to this article: http://www.research.chop.edu/blog/leukemia-patient-cancer-free-after-novel-treatment-with-engineered-immune-cells/
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