Launched learned to treat leukemia

US researchers We developed an experimental treatment for leukemia at a later stage. This type therapy has shown efficacy in the treatment of patients who were waiting to die soon, Since all modern drugs and treatments were ineffective.

Leukemia Treatment

New Method treatment of leukemia Developed by researchers from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia and the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania, involves the injection of genetically programmed cells from the patients own immune system, which They start to fight the disease. In clinical studies involved 30 patients, 5 of whom were adults aged 26 to 60 years, and 25 children and young people from 5 to 22 years.

All of them were very seriously ill and in the final stages of acute lymphoblastic leukemia. By the time the beginning of the experimental treatment, the patients have already brought several setbacks and fail to respond to conventional therapy. Half of the patients disease It returned even after a stem cell transplant, which is usually It provides these patients the best chance for survival.

According physicians all participants in the experiment was a few months and in some cases even a few weeks of life, but 6 months after the beginning of the pilot treatment of leukemia   23 of 30 percent They were still alive, and at 19 was marked by a complete remission. Previously the same Researchers say most of the small number of patients who have suffered probably from a chronic, rather than acute forms of leukemia. A growing number of patients, that this therapy has helped, it demonstrates, according to its creators, the high efficiency. (READ MORE)

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