Beating the Odds: Multiple Myeloma Cancer Treatment Triumphs with 90% Success Rate
A groundbreaking cancer treatment has been making waves in the medical community with a success rate of according to a recent report The treatment known as CAR T-cell therapy has shown dramatic results in patients with advanced blood cancers including leukemia and lymphoma nbsp The therapy involves genetically modifying a patient s T-cells which are immune cells that can fight cancer to target cancer cells specifically These modified T-cells are then reintroduced into the patient s body where they multiply and attack the cancer cells nbsp The study which was published in the New England Journal of Medicine followed patients with advanced lymphoma who had not responded to other treatments Of those patients had a complete response to the therapy meaning their cancer disappeared completely and had a response of some kind nbsp Experts are calling the results quot remarkable quot and quot game-changing quot as the therapy offers hope