{"id":33460,"date":"2017-01-14T03:23:28","date_gmt":"2017-01-14T11:23:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/a-direct-infusion-of-immune-cells-could-fight-cancer"},"modified":"2017-06-04T13:52:30","modified_gmt":"2017-06-04T20:52:30","slug":"a-direct-infusion-of-immune-cells-could-fight-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/2017\/01\/a-direct-infusion-of-immune-cells-could-fight-cancer","title":{"rendered":"A Direct Infusion Of Immune Cells Could Fight Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a class=\"aligncenter blog-photo\" href=\"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog.images\/a-direct-infusion-of-immune-cells-could-fight-cancer.jpg\"><\/a><\/p>\n<p>A new way to treat brain cancer with our own immune cells.<\/p>\n<hr>\n<p>\n<strong>Injecting genetically modified immune cells directly into the brain and spinal fluid has had remarkable effects on a deadly brain cancer<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Glioblastoma is a particularly virulent form of brain cancer. Around 20,000 people in the United States are diagnosed each year and the disease typically has poor survival rates. In a new case reported in the New England Journal of Medicine, a man has undergone experimental CAR-T therapy to treat the condition. CAR-T therapy is a branch of immunotherapy, the field taking cancer treatment by storm, and involves infusing genetically modified T cells back into a patient to target cancer cells.<\/p>\n<p><strong>A new hope <\/strong><\/p>\n<p>50-year-old Richard Grady received the treatment in California, and it involved dripping these specialised cells through a narrow tube into the brain. CAR-T therapy (also called chimeric antigen receptor) involves adding novel receptors on the surface of T cells; allowing them to better recognise and destroy any cancer cells they come across. Grady\u2019s therapy began with surgery to remove 3 larger tumours, and then followed with 6 weekly infusions into the brain.<\/p>\n<p><!-- Link: <a href=\"http:\/\/www.longevityreporter.org\/blog\/2017\/1\/4\/a-direct-infusion-of-immune-cells-could-fight-cancer\">http:\/\/www.longevityreporter.org\/blog\/2017\/1\/4\/a-direct-infu...ght-cancer<\/a> --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A new way to treat brain cancer with our own immune cells. Injecting genetically modified immune cells directly into the brain and spinal fluid has had remarkable effects on a deadly brain cancer Glioblastoma is a particularly virulent form of brain cancer. Around 20,000 people in the United States are diagnosed each year and the [\u2026]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":370,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[11,412,47],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33460","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-biotech-medical","category-genetics","category-neuroscience"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33460","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\/370"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33460"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33460\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":65371,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33460\/revisions\/65371"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33460"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33460"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/lifeboat.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33460"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}