A Revolutionary Therapy Cures 13-Year-Old Girl's Incurable Cancer
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After six months of treatment, the cancer was gone, it was undetectable but doctors are still monitoring Alyssa in case it comes back
Alyssa, a 13-year-old girl from Leicester, UK was diagnosed with T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in May last year. The T-cells were growing out of control and her cancer was aggressive. All treatments including Chemotherapy, and then a bone-marrow transplant had failed.
Doctors at Great Ormond Street Hospital used "base editing" to perform a feat of biological engineering to build her a new living drug, reported BBC.
After six months, the cancer was gone, it was undetectable but doctors are still monitoring Alyssa in case cancer comes back, the report added.
Alyssa told BBC, "Eventually I would have passed away." Her mother, Kiona, said, "This time last year I was dreading Christmas, thinking this is our last with her". She added that she just cried through Alyssa's 13th birthday in January.
