Gene therapy was a boy’s last chance to stop leukemia. And it worked.

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Mar 4, 2018 1:52 PM EST
When Shaun Banagan hops up on the exam table in a doctor’s office at UCSF Benioff Children’s Hospital his small frame barely crumples the wax paper. The shy 13-year-old has very thin arms and slight wrists.

It’s October, 2017, and Shaun and his family are waiting anxiously for his oncologist, Dr. Jennifer Willert, to read his latest lab results.

“He’s in full remission right now without any detectable disease,” Willert says. “So, he’s as negative as you can possibly get!”

“If this had been a year or two ago we wouldn’t have had this treatment to offer him.” — Dr. Jennifer Willert, UCSF
The small teen pulls aside his surgical face mask and smiles.



https://www.pbs.org/newshour/science/ge ... -it-worked

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Whats interesting with this young man having ALL is that a family was discovered to have 2 biological children be diagnosed with ALL and ASPS..
Genetics are the going factor in this young mans success with CAR-T therapy and has shown great success in stopping progression with his Leukimia .
Can it bring that same success to the ASPS patient ?

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5379899/