CLL Patient Treated at Penn Goes Into Remission Thanks to Single CAR T Cell
Perelman School of Medicine at the University of PennsylvaniaResearchers at the University of Pennsylvania’s Abramson Cancer Center say a patient treated for chronic lymphocytic leukemia (CLL) in 2013 went into remission because of a single CAR T cell and the cells it produced as it multiplied, and has stayed cancer free in the five years since, with CAR T cells still present in his immune system.