first I remember reading was the trial at the University of Pennsylvania with acute lymphocytic leukemia patients a few years. This year when my husband relapsed after a bone marrow transplant for acute myeloid leukemia, I met two patients who were given reengineered cells for acute lymphocytic leukemia. One patient we met again as an outpatient and he was doing well, the other patient was transferred to the ICU and not sure of the outcome. You meet so many people while in the hospital, but do not always keep in touch. A couple of months later we met another person at Hope Lodge who had undergone a similar treatment for lymphoma, once at the NIH and another at U Penn, he is currently receiving a third treatment at Sloan and we will see him later this week after appointments. Hoping the third time is a charm!

This is the first I've heard of the treatment being used for melanoma, I know that they are working on it for my husband's disease as well.

Thanks for posting

I hope this turns out to be a "silver bullet" against cancer someday.

It has helped some already, for how long, that remains to be seen. Still we have to have hope

The person I mentioned that has received this treatment twice, once they used the HIV as a means to combat his disease. He subsequently tested positive for HIV, but later on they determined it was a false/positive result for HIV. The doc at U Penn took additional samples as he was journaling the progress. We'll see him on Friday at Sloan as he undergoes a similar therapy for the third time.

We live in interesting times, although I wish I was not so interested in the topic!

Appreciate you bringing this to the GD forum