Immunotherapy - the 411
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T-cell immunotherapy is SAVING KIDS
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T-cells are a critical part of everyone’s normal immune system
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T-cell therapy uses the patient's own immune system to fight cancer
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T-cells are collected from the patient with a simple blood draw and modified in a special lab to attack cancer cells. The modified T- cells are then injected back into the patient as specialized “cancer fighters”
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The living modified cancer fighting T-cells are returned to the child’s blood stream, where they circulate to find tumor cells for a long time. This decreases the amount of treatments needed as compared to other treatment types such as chemo and radiation that require multiple visits over weeks to months.
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In other words, the modified T-cells now
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Recognize the cancer cells
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Search the body and find the cancer cells
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Attack and kill the cancer cells
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Invite other cancer fighting cells to join in the attack
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T-cell immunotherapy was more than 91% successful in a previous trial to treat Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
T-cell production cost for Brain Child 01 is about $80,000 per child
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