Treatment that will revolutionize leukemia: 13-year-old girl, completely recovers using new drug

13-year-old Alyssa agreed to become the first in the world to try a new type of drug for her treatment after her leukemia diagnosis. While Alyssa completely recovered from her illness, she also became a hope for the medical world.

The scientific world is excited to have found a new cancer drug. The drug, which has so far been tried in only one patient, became the hope for the treatment of leukemia.

ILLNESS OF 13 YEAR OLD GIRL SUBSIDES AND DISAPPEARS

Alyssa, only 13 years old, took many treatments such as chemotherapy and bone marrow transplantation since she had contracted leukemia. However, these treatments did not enable her to regain his health. The teenager from Leicester later accepted the world-first treatment method at Great Ormond Street Children’s Hospital in London and received genetically modified T cells. And within a month, the symptoms of Alyssa’s illness began to subside and disappear.

Alyssa was the first patient in a Medical Research Council-funded T-cell clinical trial. Now scientists want to apply this treatment on a trial basis to 10 more people from leukemia patients who have exhausted all traditional options.

Alyssa was diagnosed with T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia (T-ALL) last year. T-ALL, the most common cancer in children and young people, affects 500 people every year, and the survival rate of people who have relapsed from T-ALL is only 10 percent.