Betting on cancer research is betting on life for cases like José Antonio’s. In 2018, he was diagnosed with multiple myeloma and, after failing with several treatments, he arrived at the CRIS Unit of Hospital 12 de Octubre (Madrid), a pioneer in our country in using cell therapy.
Joaquín Martínez, head of hematology, tells in the video how they extract the blood in which the lymphocytes are, which are sent to a laboratory where they are modified, introducing a protein that recognizes the tumor.
That is, they grow the laboratory, return them and infuse them into the patient. José Antonio explains it to us in a simpler way, assuring that it is to be “like the X-Men”: “They take out your cells, they modify them and they put them back in”.
Right now his body is free of the disease and his only treatment is a review every 15 days. In the last three years, a thousand new lines of research have been opened, something that makes us stress the need to urgently invest more resources in science.
Source: Lasexta
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