Leukemia is the most common cancer in children and teenagers. It’s the cancer of the blood cells, wherein the white blood cells fail to mature properly.
When it comes to survival, doctors use the “5-year survival rate.” If a child survives five years after being diagnosed, he’s likely to have been cured.
The most common treatment is chemotherapy. Other treatment includes the use of targeted drugs, surgery and radiation therapy. But a recent case reports that gene editing saves girl from dying from acute lymphoblastic leukemia. Read more in this report by Michael Le Page on New Scientist:
Gene editing saves girl dying from leukaemia in world first
For the first time ever, a person’s life has been saved by gene editing.
One-year-old Layla was dying from leukaemia after all conventional treatments failed. “We didn’t want to give up on our daughter, though, so we asked the doctors to try anything,” her mother Lisa said in a statement released by Great Ormond Street Hospital in London, where Layla (pictured above) was treated. Read more…
It’s really amazing how it’s the first time that gene editing saves girl from leukemia, and how it hasn’t shown any side effects or signs of cancer going back so far.
The survival rates for childhood leukemia have increased in time, and hopefully this new technology will actually save more lives in the future.
Image Credit: Gene editing saves girl dying from leukaemia in world first – New Scientist
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