While all of this with Ms. Rona going on, there have been advancing in the medical world in other fields. A new T-cell Therapy that is going through clinical trials has been showing promising results. So I don’t know much about curing cancer other than it’s hard and it’s hard because it’s like your cells just went hay wire growing and are getting angry and not letting your body do it’s thing by getting rid of it itself. I know you can get rid of cancer by either just cutting it out completely and hoping you got all of it and/or going through chemotherapy which tries to eliminate cancer that way by I think shrinking it? Either way I know that fighting cancer is a long, hard and not fun process. There have been new ways coming out to fight cancer like T-cell therapy.
New Trials
According to an article from the New Atlas, there has been a new treatment that is in trials on curing cancer. This treatment is called CAR T-cell therapy and it works by taking immune cells from the patient and treating them to fight the cancer when they are re-entered into the body. There has been previous clinical trials but the most recent focused on a set of patients with late-stage mantle cell lymphoma. A large precent of the patients responded well to the therapy and a little over 60% entered remission because of it. They said that this treatment is good for patients who have relapsed and have limited options. The sad part though is that it has serious side effects, from infection to neurological effects. This treatment is also very expensive. But honestly I’m not surprised because drugs/treatments that seem to be super effective but yet also danger always seems to be super expensive as well. I could understand the danger aspect though because they are literally taking out the bodies’ defense system to “reprogram” it essentially. This can allow different bad things to happen to the body which is most likely why the side effects are so drastic.
According to AJMC, Mantle cell lymphoma is a type of B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma that typically has poor prognosis. The article also mentions how patients with this type of cancer typically become resistant to chemotherapy. Which is a big deal because this cancer isn’t a type that you can just “cut out” because it’s every where so chemotherapy would be the next step. But then if they become resistant they have no options. Until now of course with the new T-cell therapy but like we said earlier this type of treatment has scary serious side effects and is super expensive. This most likely makes it harder for patients to get because I’m sure they already have a stack of bills from previous attempts of treatment. I don’t think chemotherapy is that cheap either, then this as the last case scenario is definitely pushing it as this is crazy expensive as well. But overall from the multiple types of trials they have ran their results look promising it’s just now the fact of money, resources and the gamble with side effects.
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