regulatory agencies,” study co-author Kevan Herold, an endocrinologist, and immunologist at Yale University, told the Post.
“All of us are aware of the potential pitfalls here,” and there is a “critical first question: Are these cells safe to be put back into people?”
“We will begin to see this kind of technology brought forth in human clinical trials” in the next one to three years, Ramsdell told the Post.
Herold said it is too soon to assess how much the treatment may cost, but noted that immunotherapies are not inexpensive.
Since 2017, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration has been approving genetically altered immune cells for small groups of patients with cancers such as aggressive non-Hodgkin lymphoma or a rare form childhood leukemia, the Post reported.
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