"CTL019, used disabled form of HIV to reprogramme her immune system to kill cancer"..

the_syco

Hope this is in the right forum...

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/health/article-2246312/Girl-7-beats-leukaemia-revolutionary-treatment-using-HIV-virus-wire-immune-system.html
Yes, yes, it's the Daily Fail, but if this story is half true, it would be great.

In April this year, Emily Whitehead's family had almost given up hope.

The brave six-year-old had been fighting leukaemia for two years, only to relapse for a second time during intensive chemotherapy treatment in February.

Doctors had exhausted all the traditional treatments as Emily could not remain in remission for long enough to attempt a bone marrow transplant. So her desperate parents, Kari and Tom, started looking at more radical options.

TL;DR - CTL019, which uses a disabled form of HIV to reprogramme her immune system to kill cancer cells, saves a child at the 11th hour.

http://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/worldnews/northamerica/usa/9738355/Emily-Whitehead-girl-whose-cancer-was-cured-by-HIV.html
says that they take out some of her immune cells, modify it with the T-cell, and put them back into her.

opinion guy

Cool if it pans out.

I'm forced to wonder why they are reporting this case in the daily fail and not like.....Nature or something ?

2Scoops

This was presented at the Am Soc Hematology meeting this week. There are usually a few reporters covering these meetings looking for scientific snippets to sensationalize in the media; I imagine that's how it found its way into the Mail.

seamus

Could even be the first hint at a cancer "vaccine", maybe? Implanting modified cells to attack cancer as soon as it appears?

RobFowl

2Scoops wrote: »

This was presented at the Am Soc Hematology meeting this week. There are usually a few reporters covering these meetings looking for scientific snippets to sensationalize in the media; I imagine that's how it found its way into the Mail.

Here somewhere I would think http://www.hematology.org/Meetings/Annual-Meeting/Program/3995.aspx

steddyeddy

Interesting. For the time being viruses and retroviruses are the way to go.