A new form of Cancer Therapy
Scientists in the United Kingdom testing a new form of cancer therapy, reported success in a teenaged girl, Alyssia, who has T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia. Alyssia was the first to receive experimental gene therapy that relied on a new technique called 'base editing.' The objective of the therapy in the case of T-cell leukamia was to fix her immune system in a way that it stops making cancerous T-cells. Gene therapy is a promising approach to cancer treatment that involves using genetic material to treat or prevent disease. In the case of cancer, gene therapy can be used to boost the body's natural defence mechanisms against cancer cells, or to directly target cancer cells with therapeutic genes. T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia is a type of cancer that affects a type of white blood cell called T cells. T cells are an important part of the immune system, and T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia occurs when T cells in the bone marrow become cancerous and multiply u…
