CART-19 therapy does not work for solid tumors - yet

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CART-19 therapy does not work for solid tumors - yet

Postby H is for Hawk » Tue Jan 19, 2016 7:59 pm

Here is an article from the 1/17/16 Philadelphia Inquirer newspaper about immunotherapy and its limitations. One disapointment - CART T-cell therapy, where the patient's immune cells are engineered to target the CD19 antigen; it does not appear to work for solid tumors. There was a lot of success with leukemia & lymphoma clinical trials using this approach in the last two years.

http://www.philly.com/philly/health/can ... ision.html
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