Gene-modified stem cell transplant protects patients from toxic side effects of chemotherapy, study suggests
Wednesday, May 9, 2012 - 22:30
in Health & Medicine
For the first time, scientists have transplanted brain cancer patients' own gene-modified blood stem cells in order to protect their bone marrow against the toxic side effects of chemotherapy. Initial results of the ongoing, small clinical trial of three patients with glioblastoma showed that two patients survived longer than predicted if they had not been given the transplants, and a third patient remains alive with no disease progression almost three years after treatment.
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