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Gene therapy scores big wins against blood cancers
In one of the biggest advances against leukemia and other blood cancers in many years, doctors are reporting unprecedented success by using gene therapy to transform patients’ blood cells into soldiers that seek and destroy cancer.
Dr. David L. Porter is the Director of Blood and Marrow Transplantation at the Abramson Cancer Center at the University of Pennsylvania. Porter led a study of gene therapy, and more are planned in the coming years at Penn.
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