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Chapter 1. Gene Therapy and Advances in the Fight Against Cancer

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Gene Therapy and Advances in the Fight Against Cancer

Author: Richard O. Straub

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This brief CBS News clip explores immunotherapy, the relatively new gene therapy treatment that has shown promise in the fight against leukemia, non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma, and other types of cancer. In this therapy, a person’s own immune cells are used to hunt down and destroy cancer cells. T cells are removed from the patient’s body and genetically modified to recognize and attack cancer cells. Modified T cells are able to kill tens of thousands of cancer cells.

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1. The new form of gene therapy that has shown promise in the fight against leukemia is:

2. Doctors using gene therapy to fight cancer first remove which type of cells from a patient’s body?

3. The basis of experimental gene therapy in the fight against leukemia is to make cancer cells more “visible” to the body’s:

4. T cells are:

5. Genetically modified T cells have been shown to:

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