Gene therapy was a boy’s last chance to stop leukemia. And it worked.
Posted: Sun Mar 04, 2018 6:44 pm
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
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