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| Groundbreaking Israeli treatment may offer cure for blood cancer |
| 2021-04-08 |
| [Jerusalem Post] A groundbreaking treatment developed by an Israeli team might offer a cure against multiple myeloma, a type of blood cancer. Multiple myeloma is a relatively common type of cancer which targets white blood cells producing antibodies. As a result of the disease, those cells start to multiply indefinitely in the blood and can accumulate in the bones as well. "The causes of this cancer are not clear, but it can lead to bone lesions, anemia, kidney failure, and it exposes the patients to infections, since their immune system is weakened," Prof. Cyrille Cohen, head of the immunotherapy laboratory at Bar-Ilan University, told The Jerusalem Post. Currently, the disease is considered treatable but not curable, with a survival rate of about 50% five years after the diagnosis. The state-of-the-art treatment is based on chemotherapy, a type of treatment that is often burdensome on the patient. Cohen and his colleagues, including Prof. Polina Stepensky and Dr. Moshe Gatt from the Hadassah-University Medical Center, developed a bio-based alternative which aims at "reprogramming" the patient’s own blood cells. "We are reprogramming another type of the immune system’s cells, called ’T cells,’ in order to teach them to fight the cancer inside the blood of the patient," Cohen explained. "We draw some blood from the patient, we separate the T cells, and in the laboratory we add a new molecule which allows them to recognize the cancerous cells," he added. "The molecule is called a CAR, which stands for ’chimeric antigen receptor.’" |
| Posted by:Besoeker |
| #4 Multiple Myeloma |
| Posted by: Skidmark 2021-04-08 09:44 |
| #3 p.s. Just remembered an Analog story I've read a long time ago. A day, in which he receives a Nobel Prize in medicine for finding a cure for cancer, in the life of a Jewish American scientist. Last paragraph. "This is an alternate history. In our world his parents died in Nazi concentration camps as teenagers." |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2021-04-08 02:15 |
| #2 May may may, i am fed up with "May" in MSM... |
| Posted by: Thorong Grundy1520 2021-04-08 02:00 |
| #1 Zionism is racism! |
| Posted by: g(r)omgoru 2021-04-08 01:59 |