Last-resort leukemia treatment produces dramatic remission rate

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Last-resort leukemia treatment produces dramatic remission rate

By Gene Emery NEW YORK (Reuters Health) - Ninety percent of people facing death because conventional treatments had failed to destroy their leukemia have responded to an experimental therapy that trains their cells to kill out-of-control blood cells, doctors in Philadelphia report. Twenty seven of the 25 children and 5 adults initially responded to the new therapy. Nineteen - including a 9-year-old treated two and a half years ago - have remained cancer-free and 15 of those 19 have not receive any subsequent therapy. "We're astonished how well it turned out," senior author Dr. ...

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