USC researchers claim CAR-T breakthrough

23 April 2019
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Researchers at the University of Southern California (USC) claim that they have tweaked an immunotherapy molecule and created a cancer treatment with none of the severe side effects typically seen.

The USC study, which was published in Nature Medicine this week, states that the improved version of CAR-T therapy produced no serious side effects in 25 patients who had lymphoma that recurred after previous treatments.

Although the study was designed to look at safety, not effectiveness, six out of 11 participants receiving a commonly-used dose went into complete remission.

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