New Way to Fight Brain Cancer Shows Promise — VOA Learning English
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A new way to fight an extremely aggressive kind of brain tumor is showing promise in two experiments with a small number of patients.
For the experiments, scientists took patients’ own immune cells and turned them into “living drugs” that can find and attack the tumor, called glioblastoma. Researchers have reported that, in early tests, the immune cells have made the tumors temporarily smaller.
The treatment is called CAR-T therapy. Doctors already use the treatment to fight blood-related cancers like leukemia. But researchers have struggled to make CAR-T therapy work for solid tumors.
Now, separate teams at both Massachusetts General Hospital and the University of Pennsylvania are developing…
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