7 Jun, 2019 @ 12:54
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Boy, 6, CURED of cancer thanks to new gene therapy in Spain returns home to Costa Blanca

Leukemia
Leukemia

A SIX-YEAR-OLD boy has been cured of cancer thanks to a new gene therapy in Spain. 

The young child, from Alicante, was suffering from acute B-type lymphoblastic leukemia and was not responding to conventional treatment.

However he will now return to a normal life after receiving CAR-T 19 gene therapy in Barcelona, paid for by the country’s National Health System (SNS).

This child was treated at the Hospital Sant Joan de Déu, Esplugues de Llobregat (Barcelona), one of the only three pediatric centers in Spain to offer the CAR-T treatment, together with the Vall d’Hebron Hospital, also in Barcelona, and the Niño Jesús Hospital, in Madrid.

The treatment will give hope to many families in Spain given that acute lymphoblastic leukemia is the most common type of cancer in children.

Laurence Dollimore

Laurence Dollimore is a Spanish-speaking, NCTJ-trained journalist with almost a decade’s worth of experience.
The London native has a BA in International Relations from the University of Leeds and and an MA in the same subject from Queen Mary University London.
He earned his gold star diploma in multimedia journalism at the prestigious News Associates in London in 2016, before immediately joining the Olive Press at their offices on the Costa del Sol.
After a five-year stint, Laurence returned to the UK to work as a senior reporter at the Mail Online, where he remained for two years before coming back to the Olive Press as Digital Editor in 2023.
He continues to work for the biggest newspapers in the UK, who hire him to investigate and report on stories in Spain.
These include the Daily Mail, Telegraph, Mail Online, Mail on Sunday and The Sun and Sun Online.
He has broken world exclusives on everything from the Madeleine McCann case to the anti-tourism movement in Tenerife.

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