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Doctors left astonished after a British girl’s inoperable brain tumour, which left her unable to walk or swallow, has started to disappear following a cancer trial not yet available in the UK

Lucy Moroney, nine, is in, Mexico, for a revolutionary chemotherapy trial It involves injecting cancer-fighting drugs into tumours via the arteries Just months ago, Lucy was told she had an inoperable brain tumour Unable to walk or swallow, she flew thousands of miles for the last-ditch therapy Her family have already endured the loss of...

October 10, 2017October 10, 2017by In Cancer
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CAR-T Cell Therapy Effective Against Aggressive Brain Tumors, Say City Of Hope Researchers

A patient has been successful treated from recurrent multifocal glioblastoma through the means of CAR-T therapy. The method involves a specific kind of immunotherapy which targets cells where the IL13Rα2 antigen is present. The antigen is very common when it comes to brain cancer. Published in the New England Journal of Medicine on Dec. 29, the study...