New ‘living cancer drug completely cures lymphomas’ – putting terminal patients into remission

[The Purge]

What is CAR-T?

It's a highly personalised drug that's made for each patient using their body's own cells.

White blood cells called T-cells are removed from the patient's blood before being frozen in liquid nitrogen and sent away to labs in the USA.

There, they're genetically reprogrammed so that rather than killing bacteria and viruses, they now seek out and kill cancer.

Then they're shipped back to the UK to be infused into the patient's bloodstream where they'll hopefully continue to grow and work inside the patient.

The whole process takes a month.



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Why are the cells shipped to the USA? Isn’t their socialized medicine superior?



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[EvilEyeFleegle]

This is has been the Next Big Thing in Cancer treatment for a few years now...

CAR T Cells: Engineering Immune Cells to Treat Cancer

Unless this was just an excuse for a slam at the UK?

they ship to labs in US because of both patents and expertise in technique.

 

[shockedcanadian]

Well, your plug for socialized medicine is a bit extreme, especially if we consider the massive wait times and problems with socialized medicine across many nations. Some might argue in fact, with better access to detection in a timely manner, there might be less circumstances of late stage cancers.

 

[BULLDOG]

Does the new drug cost less, or is it more readily available to the average person in the US? What is the advantage to an American patient over one from England?

 

[HereWeGoAgain]

The side effects appear to be a real Bitch!!!
But if it works in the end.....