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Evening Standard
Evening Standard
Science
Storm Newton

THE TRUTH ABOUT: Innovative therapy gives hope to patients whose blood cancer seemed incurable - Caught on Camera

A pioneering treatment that edits healthy immune cells to fight cancer has shown promise for adults and children with a rare and aggressive form of leukaemia that “seemed incurable”.

Almost two thirds of patients with T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (T-ALL) involved in a clinical trial of the treatment – known as BE-CAR7 – now remain disease-free.

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