I guess humanity won its first big victory over cancer

Cancer — a disease that every time cheating defense system of the human body and strikes at the most unexpected moment. One way to defeat this terrible disease once and for all, scientists have not yet found, but diligently working on it. Especially promising seem the latest research in the field of genetic engineering, which already saved the lives of two patients.

The website sincerely rejoices in this achievement, scientists!

In January 2017, a group of European scientists in the journal "Science translational medicine" (Science Translational Medicine) published an article about cancer treatment with genetically modified white blood cells.

Scientists propose to take human immune cells, modify them and place in the body of the patient, so they "attack" the cancer cells. Already known two cases where the method was successful.







The first two that had tried this method, has become little Layla Richards (Leyla Richards) from the UK. In 3 months the girl was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukemia — a disease in which immature lymphoid cells are released into the blood, causing it gradually ceases to perform its functions in the body. Chances to survive at Leila practically was not, as conventional treatments such as chemotherapy and bone marrow transplantation, have not given results.

With the consent of the girl's parents, the specialists of the hospital on great Ormond street (Great Ormond Street Hospital) in London has decided to apply the experimental method, which had previously been tested only on mice. "We wanted at all costs to save our daughter, so he asked the doctors to make any steps", — said the mother of Leila.

The risk was justified: after a month of treatment with modified cells Leyla went into remission, which lasted for a year and a half.







"Welcome to the hospital on great Ormond street".

The second patient, which was treated using the methods of genetic engineering, was another little girl with acute lymphoblastic leukemia. As in the case with Layla Richards, her body did not respond to traditional methods of treatment. With this latest development of the scientists disease was stopped. Girls the remission lasts for a year.

It is worth noting that genetic engineering technology has been used for the treatment of cancer and informed. However, the white blood cells extracted from patients who were undergoing treatment. In the described cases, the donors were healthy people: fence cellular material in young patients could damage their already frail immune system.

According to experts, the fact that the use of genetically modified cells has yielded such impressive results suggests that there may be universal solutions that can be applied to different patients — regardless of their age and condition of the immune system. Scientists emphasize that you want to spend a great deal of work to prove the effectiveness of the technology, but now the tests look promising.

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