Right now I'm in a cancer treatment study. (my particular study is a "shotgun" type of study. They have a drug that they know works on certain types of cancer, but they have a guess that it might work on my weird/rare type.)
The previous studies on this drug I'm on, were done on patients they had exhausted the conventional treatments, chemo, radiation etc. And they were put on this drug as a last chance after the conventional treatments had failed. I'm lucky in that I'm getting this drug as a first line treatment.
In this case, with these kids, it sounds like they were given the traditional chemo, and when that show results, they tried this. As a result, they don't know if the chemo caused the remission or it was the T-Cells, or the combination.
Right now I'm in a cancer treatment study. (my particular study is a "shotgun" type of study. They have a drug that they know works on certain types of cancer, but they have a guess that it might work on my weird/rare type.)
The previous studies on this drug I'm on, were done on patients they had exhausted the conventional treatments, chemo, radiation etc. And they were put on this drug as a last chance after the conventional treatments had failed. I'm lucky in that I'm getting this drug as a first line treatment.
In this case, with these kids, it sounds like they were given the traditional chemo, and when that show results, they tried this. As a result, they don't know if the chemo caused the remission or it was the T-Cells, or the combination.