Experimental Cancer Treatment That Uses CRISPR Gene-Editing Put Young Girl Into Remission

Medicine & Technology Dec 13, 2022

A 13-year-old patient with leukemia who had not responded to other treatments now has no detectable cancer cells after receiving genetically edited immune cells that attack cancer. Read the article to learn more details about this story.

First HIV Patient Cured Without Surgery Has Gone Into Long-Term Remission, Boosts Hope for Millions of People

Jul 08, 2020

A 34-year-old man from Brail was prescribed a multi-drug cocktail of AIDS medicines under a 48-week course of treatment and has successfully gone int long-term remission without surgery.

New ‘Chemoimmunotherapy’ Proves Potent Against Prostate Cancers

Apr 29, 2015

In spite of aggressive chemotherapy treatments, advanced prostate cancers have proven to be quite difficult to treat. As a heterogeneous mass of different cancerous mutations, prostate tumors often evade cellular death, and have even been known to accumulate cells capable of suppressing a body’s immunological defenses. But in a new study published this week in the journal Nature, researchers have found that chemotherapy, when paired with immunotherapy, is a potent duo that has already proven successful in achieving prostate cancer remission in mouse models—now they think that the strategy may be ready to treat humans.