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Mar 16, 2024

Incredible cancer breakthrough sees woman’s brain tumor almost disappear in just five days

Posted by in categories: biotech/medical, neuroscience

They treated three patients with recurrent glioblastoma using a variant of an existing CAR-T therapy, adding additional antibodies to the treatment — and the results were truly astounding.

According to the paper published in The New England Journal of Medicine, one patient saw their tumor decrease in size by 18.5% two days after the treatment, and by day 69, the tumor had decreased by 60.7%, while another saw their ‘tumor regress rapidly’, according to Mass General Brigham.

After the third patient was treated, an MRI showed that a single infusion had led to a ‘near-complete tumor regression’ in just five days.

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