{"id":84432,"date":"2026-07-14T09:35:18","date_gmt":"2026-07-14T13:35:18","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/?p=84432"},"modified":"2026-07-14T09:35:39","modified_gmt":"2026-07-14T13:35:39","slug":"new-cell-therapy-saves-four-children-with-terminal-brain-cancer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/new-cell-therapy-saves-four-children-with-terminal-brain-cancer\/","title":{"rendered":"New Cell Therapy Saves Four Children With Terminal Brain Cancer"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>From <em>Good News Instead:<\/em><\/p>\n<p>A hopeful step is emerging for children facing some of the hardest-to-treat brain cancers.<\/p>\n<p>In a small clinical trial at Children\u2019s National Hospital in Washington DC, four children with brain tumors long considered incurable are still alive years after receiving an experimental immune-based treatment. Even more heartening, three of them currently show no evidence of disease. \u201cThese children are getting to grow up \u2013 it\u2019s truly awesome,\u201d says Gene Hwang at Children\u2019s National Hospital. The treatment, known as tumor-associated antigen T-cell therapy, or TAA T-cell therapy, is designed to help a patient\u2019s own immune system recognize and attack cancer cells. It was tested in 33 children and young adults with either newly diagnosed diffuse intrinsic pontine glioma, known as DIPG, or other brain tumors that had not responded to standard care.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>From Good News Instead: A hopeful step is emerging for children facing some of the hardest-to-treat brain cancers. In a.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[32],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-84432","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-news","7":"entry"},"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84432","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=84432"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84432\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":84434,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/84432\/revisions\/84434"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=84432"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=84432"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/spiritdaily.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=84432"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}