In 2010, doctors treated Doug Olson’s leukemia with an experimental gene therapy that transformed some of his blood cells into cancer killers. More than a decade later, there’s no sign of cancer in his body.
The treatment cured Olson and a second patient, according to the University of Pennsylvania doctors, who said it was the first time the therapy had been studied for so long.
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Given there have been multiple posts today on this very exciting news, I've closed off replies to your post and ask that replies go to this post, so we can have the discussion in one place. 
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