How Effective is CAR T Cancer Treatment?

ByShaun Snapp

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Executive Summary

  • CAR T is a new, very hyped treatment by the medical establishment.
  • We analyze something the medical establishment seems to have little interest in how effective CAR T treatment is.

Introduction

CAR T is one of the most absurd cancer treatments I have encountered. In this article, we evaluate the effectiveness of CAR T treatment.

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About CAR T Treatment

Finally, here is a more objective explanation of the side effects of CAR T treatment from the book Malignant.

A CAR-T is a cell from a cancer patient that has been engineered to attack a particular target, ideally something expressed in abundance on the surface of a cancer cell. It’s made in a stepwise fashion. First, a cancer patient’s cells are removed from his or her body intravenously. Those cells are sent to a laboratory, where the T-cells (a type of infection-fighting cell) are isolated. T-cells need two signals (called co-stimulation) in order to attack, a general warning signal and infection-specific signal. A piece of DNA is shoved into the patient’s extracted T-cells to activate the danger signal and tell the cells to produce a receptor against a specific target (cancer cells).