A new CAR-T-cell therapy tricks cancer cells with a decoy to increase treatment efficiency in B-cell Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia
CAR-T cell therapy has significantly improved outcomes for B-ALL patients, but relapse still occurs in over 50% of cases, leaving many...
3 days ago
Experimental treatment borrowed from blood cancer shows promise for pediatric brain tumors
In an early-stage clinical trial, the therapy nearly doubled the expected survival time of young patients. Still, experts caution that...
4 days ago
CAR-T Cell Therapy Shows EFS Benefit in Pediatric Leukemia Subset
Treatment with bicistronic CD19/CD22 CAR-T cell therapy has shown event-free survival improvements in children with relapsed or...
Dec 19, 2024
Cell therapy fights lethal childhood brain cancer in Stanford Medicine trial
CAR-T cells show promise against pediatric diffuse midline gliomas, brain and spinal cord tumors that are among the deadliest cancers, a...
Nov 14, 2024
Children with aggressive blood cancer offered treatment cure hope
Youngsters with T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (T-ALL) will be offered CAR T-cell therapy targeted at a specific protein, which has...
Oct 15, 2024
CAR T cell therapy for pediatric brain cancer warrants further study
Researchers at Texas Children’s Cancer Center and the Center for Cell and Gene Therapy at Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s...
Jun 3, 2024
CAR T cell therapy targeting HER2 antigen shows promise against advanced sarcoma in phase I clinical trial
Researchers at Texas Children’s Cancer Center and the Center for Cell and Gene Therapy at Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children’s...
May 30, 2024
CAR T cell therapy for pediatric patients: What parents should know
CAR T cell therapy is a type of immunotherapy that modifies T cells, so they can detect and fight cancer cells. This therapy is...
Mar 25, 2024
Combining CAR-T cells and inhibitor drugs for high-risk neuroblastoma
Roberto Chiarle, MD, at Boston Children's Hospital and his colleagues now report a way to make CAR-T cell therapy work better in...
Mar 7, 2024
Beyond chemotherapy: Navigating the promise and perils of CAR-T therapy in pediatric cancer
Upon hearing the phrase ‘cancer treatment’, the first word that can typically spring to mind is chemotherapy – a primary therapy which...
Feb 7, 2024