13/02/2026
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In a major medical milestone for Vietnam, doctors have successfully used a groundbreaking treatment called CAR-T cell therapy to save a 12-year-old girl battling leukemia.
After standard treatments and a bone marrow transplant failed, the medical team turned to this innovative "living drug" approach.
The process involved extracting the patient's own immune cells and sending them to specialists in Taiwan, where they were genetically modified to recognize and attack cancer.
Once these enhanced "fighter cells" were returned to the girl’s body, they successfully tracked down and eliminated the remaining cancer cells.
Despite facing a difficult recovery period with high fevers, the patient is now cancer-free, marking the first time a pediatric patient in Vietnam has been successfully treated using this specific technology.
While this is an incredible success story, it is important to clarify that this represents a highly effective treatment rather than a universal "cure" for all blood cancers.
However, this breakthrough proves that advanced gene therapy is now a viable option in the region.
This success offers new hope for many other children and adults facing similar life-threatening diagnoses, potentially transforming how cancer is treated across the country.
