New cancer breakthrough sees brain tumour almost disappear in 5 days | Tech News [Video]

A ‘dramatic and rapid’ breakthrough treatment has brought hope that brain tumours could disappear within just five days. 

Scientists in the US have reported cases of three patients with glioblastoma – a common and aggressive form of brain cancer – who were successfully treated using a pioneering therapy.

The team at Mass General Brigham treated the patients using CAR-T therapy, a type of personalised therapy that uses their own immune system to target the cancer.

Patients’ T-cells are extracted, before specialists make changes to them and gradually drip them back into their bloodstream. 

They are then able to recognise and attack the cancer cells. 

The three people in the clinical trial – known as INCIPIENT – were treated with CARv3-TEAM-E T cells, which is a variant of existing CAR-T therapy in which they added additional antibodies before infusing them back into each patient. 

During the trial, the patients experienced dramatic reductions in their tumours after a single treatment, with one …