cancer therapy
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Nobel Prize For Medicine Awarded To Researchers Who Harnessed The Immune System To Fight Cancer
The 2018 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine has been jointly awarded to a pair of immunologists for devising an effective new class of cancer therapy that unshackles the body’s immune system.
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New Cancer Therapy Leaves Three Dead
Clinical trials of a promising new therapy, in which white blood cells are reprogrammed to attack cancer cells, has resulted in the deaths of three patients. In response, the US Food and Drug Administration has ordered a temporary halt to the trial.
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Pioneering Gene-Editing Therapy Reverses Cancer In Baby Girl
A one-year-old girl diagnosed with incurable aggressive leukemia is now in remission after receiving “designer cells” from a donor. The therapy made use of a powerful new gene-editing technique that could eventually be used to treat an array of hereditary diseases.