Posted on 01/14/2018 7:03:16 PM PST by libh8er
The Nanjing government has released an article that states a patient suffering from recurrent Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia (otherwise known as ALL) has been cured following CAR-T (Chimeric Antigen Receptors) therapy at the Jiangsu Provincial Hospital of TCM (Traditional Chinese Medicine).
Through genetic engineering, the patient’s T cells (the lymphoid stem cell, which is derived from bone marrow) were regenerated, “wiping out the tumour through the immune system”. The patient, a Mr. Zhang, had already endured two rounds of chemotherapy before, he says, the therapy “pulled me back from the jaws of death”.
The 49 year old Zhang had caught a sudden fever in October of 2016 and his body temperature soared to 40 degrees celsius. After two rounds of chemo his condition improved but he could no longer continue with treatments due to economic struggles. Severe back pain brought him to Chief Physician Dr. Zhu Xuejun, when it was found that the leukemia cell incidence in Zhang’s bone marrow was up to 81 percent. He was given months to live.
In August 2017, Zhu Xuejun began CAR-T therapy, free of charge, on Mr. Zhang. Side effects included a persistent high fever and chills, yet, he was said to have passed the “dangerous period”. After 3 weeks of treatment, Zhang’s leukemia cells had disappeared completely from his bone marrow.
“I feel good now, I went jogging this morning”, Zhang told reporters. First successful treatments of CAR-T therapy in Nanjing, together with the help of Tsinghua University, began around September of 2015.
CAR-T or chimeric antigen receptors are engineered to graft onto an immune effector cell. The cells are engineered to latch onto cancer cells and dissolve them. It has been hailed the “miracle cure”.
When this therapy comes to Cuba, it will be free.
The side effect?
You later turn into a VERY large mouse.
From what I gather on the Internet, ALL is already curable, but more so in children than adults.
It’s curable in many but those who relapse have a ‘grim prognosis’.
Bone marrow genetic engineering is “Traditional Chinese Medicine”?
Maybe Andy Kaufman will come out of hiding...
That does seem to be the name of the institution. LOL
Any breakthrough in the disease is welcome. Other places are trying the treatment, you can read about them in many studies. Happy for this man and hope he remains free of this terrible disease.
I've shut up a lot of people bragging about the wonders of traditional and herbal medicine by asking "Which improved lifespan more: Herbs and acupuncture in the West, or introducing vaccines and antibiotics to China?"
Excellent points!
Initial finding is that it's a 100% cure in about 70% of cases, but the dataset is small.
Know a family here in the states who has a young son that had a very grim prognosis. CAR-T was a last experimental approach for him. He currently has no Leukemia cells because of it, and is beginning to do fairly normal activities. If the cells stay absent for 1 year then his prognosis for the future is very bright.
My younger brother died of leukemia at age 37.
Treatment and cure would have been nice back then.
When it comes to the US it will only go to the highest bidders.
I think both have real value.
Don’t shut out Asian medicines. They have had a long time to work on them, and frankly our medicine is too focused on making a massive profit.
Both have value. Both should be included.
Both.
Cheap royalty free cure since China does not honor patents.
While abracadabra hoodoo makes a steady profit for decades off dumb white people who have been liberal-beaten into thinking anything instigated by white people = basically bad.
Yeah right?
Maybe in China they’re starting to have “integrative medicine”. ;-D
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