Study of Penn patients with decade-long leukemia remissions after CAR T cell therapy revealed new details about persistence of personalized ‘Living Drug’ cells

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On Feb. 2, 2022, a new analysis of the first two patients treated in a clinical trial with CAR T cell therapy explains the longest persistence of CAR T cells recorded to date against chronic lymphocytic leukemia and shows that the CAR T cells remained detectable at least a decade after infusion, with sustained remission in both patients. an analysis of these two patients was published in Nature.

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