Potential major breakthrough in treating cancer

[True Dough]

Massimo
@Rainmaker1973

A single dose of a new cancer drug made a brain tumor almost disappear – in just five days.

Doctors at Massachusetts General Hospital reported “dramatic and rapid” tumor regression in the first patients treated with a next-generation form of CAR T-cell therapy for glioblastoma, one of the most aggressive brain cancers known.

The therapy, called CARv3-TEAM-E, was developed to overcome a major hurdle in treating solid tumors: their ability to hide from the immune system.

The personalized treatment reprograms a patient’s immune cells to attack the tumor, and in one extraordinary case, nearly eliminated the cancer within just five days. This novel therapy is designed to target multiple features of the tumor at once, a strategy that may help overcome the common challenge of treatment resistance in solid tumors like glioblastoma.

Although the tumors eventually returned, the early outcomes were described as unprecedented. One patient saw a 60% reduction in tumor size that lasted for half a year—an impressive result in a cancer known for its aggressiveness.

The trial’s success marks a major step forward for immunotherapy in brain cancer and raises new hopes for long-term control or even a cure. Researchers are now working to refine the treatment and extend its effects, with the ultimate goal of turning a once-terminal diagnosis into a survivable condition.

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[True Dough]

1. This is happening despite the funding obstacles created by the current administration

Absolute morons!

[Scrivener7]

2. That is a damn miracle. Science is a miracle.

[Lovie777]

3. K & R...................

[travelingthrulife]

4. As an oncology nurse, I wish people would understand how close we are to

treatments that will be much more specific and less traumatic for people with cancer. Now is not the time to back down on research.

[Nanjeanne]

5. Extraordinary! Wonderful! I lost a dearest friend to a glioblastoma. It's a devastating diagnosis.

[EuterpeThelo]

6. This makes me happy for future cancer patients but

it's too late for my fierce and beautiful mama, who we lost to stage 4 glioblastoma in 2021. It took her in less than six months from the date of diagnosis, even with surgery, chemo and radiation.

Then again, I don't have to see the horrible emotional and spiritual pain she would be in watching what is going on in the world right now.

[paleotn]

7. Science

No Josh Rogan and ivermectin memes required. I do wish we would go back to the days when uninformed opinion was considered exactly that. And the untrained hoi polloi deferred to those who fucking know things.

[KS Toronado]

8. Our current administration sure has a lot of uninformed opinions

From ivermectin & autism and now water kills magnets. ..

[bif]

9. DUPE

https://www.democraticunderground.com/100220757509