Interest piece about a 'universal' cancer therapy.

[zaax]

medicalxpress.com/news/2020...

[AussieNeil Partner Administrator]

A universal CAR-T or CAR-NK therapy is the "Holy Grail" of cancer research, but I note that as usual the research is only described as "encouraging" by the researchers.

"There are plenty of hurdles to overcome however if this testing is successful, then I would hope this new treatment could be in use in patients in a few years' time," he said.

Professor Oliver Ottmann, Cardiff University's Head of Haematology, whose department delivers CAR-T therapy, said: "This new type of T-cell therapy has enormous potential to overcome current limitations of CAR-T, which has been struggling to identify suitable and safe targets for more than a few cancer types."

[Sushibruno]

Wow allot of hope for different types of cancer, this is exciting!

[Wroxham]

Well done Cardiff, UK.

Looks promising and thanks Zaax.

Stay safe & well.

Sue

[studebaker]

That would be great treatment for a lot of people fighting cancer. Very likely not in my lifetime, but I think there is a lot of hope for younger generation 👍🏻🙏🏻

Thank you for this article zaax. There is a light at the end of the journey and a lot of hope.

Dana