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A groundbreaking cell therapy has successfully treated stiff person syndrome, a rare neurological disorder that causes severe muscle stiffness and mobility problems. If approved by the FDA this summer, it would become the first treatment for the condition and the first personalized CAR-T therapy for any autoimmune disease.
Mount Sinai researchers discovered that focused radiation helps CAR-T therapy work better against tough-to-treat solid tumors like lung cancer and melanoma. The breakthrough could make this life-saving treatment safer and more effective for thousands of cancer patients.
Jurassic Park star Sam Neill has announced he's cancer-free after a groundbreaking CAR T-cell therapy trial eliminated his aggressive blood cancer. The 78-year-old actor is now championing broader access to the revolutionary treatment that saved his life when traditional chemotherapy failed.
China just approved the first CAR T-cell therapy ever designed to treat solid tumors, offering new hope to advanced gastric cancer patients who've run out of options. This breakthrough could reshape how doctors treat stomach, pancreatic, and other difficult cancers.
A German woman who spent weeks bedridden with three life-threatening autoimmune diseases is now symptom-free after a single treatment with engineered immune cells. She hasn't needed medication since receiving the therapy that doctors called her "last chance."
Cancer specialists just published the first comprehensive guide to help patients thrive years after groundbreaking CAR-T cell therapy. The new roadmap tackles a crucial gap as more blood cancer patients survive longer than ever before.
A breakthrough immune therapy is transforming multiple myeloma from a disease that always returned into one where patients can reach long-term remission. More than 36,000 Americans diagnosed this year now have access to treatments once considered impossible.
Scientists have discovered that a cancer treatment called CAR T-cell therapy can stop autoimmune diseases like lupus and multiple sclerosis without the dangerous side effects. Hundreds of patients are already experiencing remarkable recoveries, and the first treatments could be approved next year.
Actor Sam Neill announced he has no cancer in his body, four years after his stage three lymphoma diagnosis nearly ended his life. The Jurassic Park star credits an innovative therapy that genetically modifies blood cells to attack cancer.
The FDA just granted breakthrough status to a promising new CAR T-cell therapy designed to fight aggressive blood cancers. This designation could speed up access to a treatment that harnesses the immune system's power to target previously hard-to-treat malignancies.
Scientists are repurposing a powerful cancer treatment to "reset" the immune systems of people with severe autoimmune diseases, and early results show patients going into complete remission. This breakthrough could transform treatment for millions living with conditions like lupus and multiple sclerosis.
A revolutionary cancer treatment just gave a Philadelphia man his third kidney transplant by removing the antibodies that kept rejecting donors. Penn Medicine's breakthrough trial could open transplants to thousands of patients currently deemed "impossible to match."
When Alex's blood cancer returned for the third time, doctors in his home country said there was nothing more they could do. A desperate global search led him to Beijing, where cutting-edge treatment gave him a second chance at life. #
Two patients who spent years waiting for kidney transplants with nearly zero chance of finding a match just received new organs thanks to cancer-fighting cells repurposed for transplant medicine. The breakthrough could help 5,000 highly sensitized Americans waiting for kidneys.
Twenty people with smoldering multiple myeloma have zero detectable cancer cells after receiving an aggressive immunotherapy treatment. The results are so complete that researchers are cautiously using a word they usually avoid: cure.
Actor Sam Neill is cancer-free after a groundbreaking treatment that turns the body's own immune cells into cancer-fighting superweapons. Scientists say we've only scratched the surface of what's possible.
A groundbreaking UK trial used CAR T-cell therapy, originally designed for cancer, to send five lupus patients into remission within three months. One patient who couldn't walk without pain just two years ago recently went Alpine skiing for the first time.
Five lupus patients in the UK achieved remission using CAR T-cell therapy, a cancer treatment now showing promise for autoimmune diseases. One woman celebrated by skiing the Alps and dancing at her daughter's wedding for the first time in years.
A breakthrough treatment originally designed for cancer is giving hope to over 5 million Indians living with autoimmune diseases. CAR T-cell therapy is helping patients with lupus and arthritis reduce lifelong medications by resetting their faulty immune systems.
A startup is bringing hope to glioblastoma patients with an experimental CAR-T therapy that made all three initial patients' tumors shrink dramatically. One patient remains cancer-free more than 2.5 years after treatment.
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