Two babies suffering from childhood leukemia have become living proof that mankind’s efforts in treating deadly cancer in kids are really beginning to pay off.
While British researchers may not have found what causes leukemia in children, they have made a breakthrough in the way we could be able to treat it in the future.
According to a research paper published in the Science Translational Medicine journal, two babies given an experimental kind of edited T-cells are now in remission, and have been for longer than a year.
Both children, little girls aged 11 months and 16 months, respectively, were given the CAR-T cell therapy, as well as chemotherapy and bone marrow transplants (the latter was used to later flush the edited cells from their bodies), as a last attempt at saving their lives from the cancer.
Since their treatments, which occurred between June and December 2016, Medical Xpress report that young girls are with their families, happy and healthy.
This treatment was experimental and not approved for general use, however, various forms of CAR-T cell therapy are being trialled, which is being dubbed by experts as “promising”.
If anything, the hope this brings to parents of seriously sick children is the true silver lining…
