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A cancer cure? Penn treatment kept 2 men’s chronic leukemia in remission for a decade

A new study in Nature checks in with the first two patients treated with CAR-T cancer therapy at Penn 10 years later.

Doug Olson is cancer-free 10 years after being the second leukemia patient treated with Penn's CAR-T therapy, which uses the body's own immune system to attack the cancer.
Doug Olson is cancer-free 10 years after being the second leukemia patient treated with Penn's CAR-T therapy, which uses the body's own immune system to attack the cancer.Read moreCourtesy of Doug Olson