Teenager Leukaemia free after a world-first us... - CLL Support

CLL Support

23,138 members39,744 posts

Teenager Leukaemia free after a world-first use of sophisticated cell engineering.

Juliette02 profile image
1 Reply

A 13-year-old girl who relapsed with a particular type of blood cancer is now leukaemia-free after a world-first use of what scientists have described as the most sophisticated cell engineering to date.independent.co.uk/news/scie...

Written by
Juliette02 profile image
Juliette02
To view profiles and participate in discussions please or .

The ability to reply to this post has been turned off.

1 Reply
AussieNeil profile image
AussieNeilPartnerAdministrator

This is a VERY popular news item. Here's the previous discussion: healthunlocked.com/cllsuppo...

I've turned off replying to your post, so that we can have all the discussion in one post, but thank you for an excellent title and introduction to the news item from another source to the BBC article.

Neil

Not what you're looking for?

You may also like...

Interesting recently published overview of Chronic Lymphocytic Leukaemia and Hairy-Cell Leukaemia

From the cancer network, home of the Oncology Journal Recently published six page overview of...

GVHD after a stem cell transplant

I had a stem cell transplant from a non-related donor almost four months ago and got graft versus...

Blood transfusion after first round of FCR

Am I just unlucky? The start of the FCR went so well, though I was breathless from the first dose...

Israeli Scientists have developed an oral Covid-19 vaccine

"While working on the avian [coronovirus] vaccine, the scientists said they identified a possible...

Hospital response to lack of monitoring after first FCR

Just had a call back from a (lady) doctor after my call to the (male) consultant and (male) trial...