New Treatment Offers Hope for Childhood Cancer

A novel treatment using CAR-T cell therapy appears to work against tumors in children with neuroblastoma, a rare kind of cancer. Nine of 27 children in the Italian study had no sign of cancer six weeks after the treatment, although two later relapsed and died. The treatment harnesses the immune system to create “living drugs” able to seek and destroy tumors. It is too soon to call it a cure for neuroblastoma, but the results raise hopes that it can be used against other kinds of cancers.