In the recent past, the medical field has discovered a new treatment that holds a lot of potential in fighting different forms of cancer. This revolutionary treatment method was created by a group of scientists from the University of Health Sciences: it is a synthesis of immunotherapy and gene therapy that boosts the body’s capabilities to combat cancer cells.
How It Works
It is a process by which immune cells are altered to have better identification of cancer cells to destroy. CRISPR technology enables researchers to modify genes in T-cells, provide them with the ability to recognize a specific tumour marker. Initial clinical studies have shown promising effects regarding the tumor size decrease and increase in survival rates.
Clinical Trials and Future Implications
From the first experiments carried out on patients with melanoma and lung cancer, more than 70% of the cases manifested positive results. They say this approach can completely change the approach to cancer treatment and give a new lease of life to patients with incurable types of cancer. As more and more effort is dedicated to the improvement of the treatment and the enlargement of the trials, the members of the medical field remain hopeful that it will alter the current paradigm of cancer therapies and introduce new and more accurate and effective forms of treatment in the future.
