10-year-old girl becomes first in Taiwan to fully recover from leukemia via CAR T-cell therapy

https://www.yahoo.com/news/10-yr-old-girl-becomes-214431884.html

Ryan General
Fri, July 15, 2022 at 2:44 PM


A 10-year-old girl with leukemia became the first in Taiwan to have been successfully treated with a new form of immunotherapy.

The patient, identified only as Ting-ting (亭亭), underwent CD19 chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy at the National Taiwan University Hospital (NTUH).

CAR T-cell therapy is an immunotherapy treatment that became prominent in 2012 after 6-year-old American girl Emily Whitehead was successfully treated for her leukemia in a clinical trial.

 

I'm currently working with CAR T-cell therapy and it's an honor to be conducting such a clinical trial. We have so many subjects who have complete or partial response. This is a very promising treatment. This makes me so happy. This is why I chose to enter healthcare 3 years ago.

 

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