{"id":244093,"date":"2026-09-16T01:05:39","date_gmt":"2026-09-16T06:05:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/a-3-year-olds-metastatic-cancer-disappeared-after-two-doses-of-experimental-therapy"},"modified":"2026-09-16T01:05:39","modified_gmt":"2026-09-16T06:05:39","slug":"a-3-year-olds-metastatic-cancer-disappeared-after-two-doses-of-experimental-therapy","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2026\/09\/a-3-year-olds-metastatic-cancer-disappeared-after-two-doses-of-experimental-therapy","title":{"rendered":"A 3-Year-Old\u2019s Metastatic Cancer Disappeared After Two Doses of Experimental Therapy"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-3-year-olds-metastatic-cancer-disappeared-after-two-doses-of-experimental-therapy.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A powerful advance in cancer-fighting medicine has achieved an extraordinary new milestone.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/experimental-drug-helped-cancer-patients-live-40-longer-in-clinical-trial\">Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T cell therapy<\/a> is an immunotherapy technique that involves taking a patient\u2019s immune cells and genetically engineering them to become potent cancer-hunting predators.<\/p>\n<p>The treatment has shown <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/woman-with-3-autoimmune-diseases-enters-remission-after-immune-reset\">huge promise in helping patients treat cancer<\/a>, although its effectiveness has mostly been limited to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.sciencealert.com\/scientists-find-kill-switch-that-activates-cancer-cell-death-in-the-lab\">treating blood cancers, not solid tumors<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A powerful advance in cancer-fighting medicine has achieved an extraordinary new milestone. Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T cell therapy is an immunotherapy technique that involves taking a patient\u2019s immune cells and genetically engineering them to become potent cancer-hunting predators. The treatment has shown huge promise in helping patients treat cancer, although its effectiveness has mostly [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":662,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,38,412],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-244093","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-engineering","category-genetics"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244093","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/662"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=244093"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/244093\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=244093"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=244093"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=244093"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}