Modifying Your Immune System to Fight Cancer
Nothing seemed to work on Josh Feldman's tumor. Then he tried an experimental study with CAR T-cell therapy. The therapy involves extracting your body's T-cells, which carry out your immune response to disease, and modifying them with a virus so that they attack cancer cells. The approach can succeed where chemotherapy, cancer surgery, or other approaches fail. It also does not cause the damage to the rest of the body that chemotherapy drugs or surgery does. While it is experimental - and his doctors at the UCLA oncology center note that it does not work perfectly on all patients so far - it has the potential to be a breakthrough treatment.
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