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The Guardian - UK
The Guardian - UK
Science
Ian Sample Science editor

Car T-cell therapy shows early promise in treating gastric cancers

Laboratory technicians at work
Lab technicians in France work on a machine to produce Car T cells, which researchers in China believe could help shrink tumours in the digestive system. Photograph: Thomas Coex/AFP/Getty

An experimental cancer therapy that infuses designer immune cells into patients has shown early promise in a clinical trial by shrinking tumours in the digestive system.

Interim results from the first phase of the clinical trial found that the tumours in nearly half – 48.6% – of the 37 patients treated so far reduced in size after the therapy.

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