Headline news in the London Daily Mail on 3rd May 2021 proclaimed ‘Stunning therapy lands knock-out blow to cancer by training immune cells to seek and destroy deadly threats in trials’. CAR T-cell therapy, it is explained, is a type of cell-based gene therapy, that involves altering the genes inside the T cells to help them attack different types of cancer, especially breast cancer.
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Gene therapy may offer miraculous treatments and ‘cures’ but it should be remembered that they often come at a price, much like the gene therapy vaccines now being promoted worldwide. These therapies are new discoveries and the long term effects are not known. Indeed the treatments themselves sometimes have severe and unexpected outcomes that send one’s own natural immune system into overdrive with alarming results.
Gene therapy may offer miraculous treatments and ‘cures’ but it should be remembered that they often come at a price, much like the gene therapy vaccines now being promoted worldwide. These therapies are new discoveries and the long term effects are not known. Indeed the treatments themselves sometimes have severe and unexpected outcomes that send one’s own natural immune system into overdrive with alarming results.