https://www.fda.gov/NewsEvents/News room/PressAnnouncements/

Nice trip

>>9145224
Ok.

The safety and efficacy of Kymriah were demonstrated in one multicenter clinical trial of 63 pediatric and young adult patients with relapsed or refractory B-cell precursor ALL. The overall remission rate within three months of treatment was 83 percent.

Treatment with Kymriah has the potential to cause severe side effects. It carries a boxed warning for cytokine release syndrome (CRS), which is a systemic response to the activation and proliferation of CAR T-cells causing high fever and flu-like symptoms, and for neurological events. Both CRS and neurological events can be life-threatening. Other severe side effects of Kymriah include serious infections, low blood pressure (hypotension), acute kidney injury, fever, and decreased oxygen (hypoxia). Most symptoms appear within one to 22 days following infusion of Kymriah. Since the CD19 antigen is also present on normal B-cells, and Kymriah will also destroy those normal B cells that produce antibodies, there may be an increased risk of infections for a prolonged period of time.

>>9145231
So, we are now going to alter our own cells to do whatever we want.

Basically, like programing a general purpose micro controller.

I can see a lot of good and bad things that will result from this, but I'm nit the kind of /sci/entist that stops because ethics, so kudos.

>>9145247
Yeah problem is we suck at it still so they kill a lot of healthy cells. If this type of approach can be better targeted it will cure most all cancers.

>>9145250
That's why we're using the US as a petri dish.
In a few years this type of technique will hopefully proliferate.

price is $475,000 for the treatment

This is just imunotherapy. They've been using it to treat cancer for years in experiments. Nice to see it FDA approved, even if it's only for a very specific form of child cancer.

Some day all cancers will be treatable with a a simple vaccine.