13-Year-Old Girl Gets Cured Of Cancer

A teenage girl identified as Alyssa was cured of an incurable cancer during the first use of a revolutionary new type of medicine.

Previous treatments that was involved in all did not cure her leukaemia.

The doctors at Great Ormond Street Hospital used “base editing” to perform a biological engineering to build her a new living drug.

Six months later the treatment, the cancer cannot be traced in her body system.

Alyssa is still presently monitored just in case the cancer returns

Alyssa, who is 13 and from Leicester, was diagnosed with T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in May last year.

T-cells are supposed to be the body’s guardians seeking out and destroying threats but for Alyssa they had become the danger and were growing out of control.

Her cancer was aggressive. Chemotherapy, and then a bone-marrow transplant, were unable to rid it from her body.

Without the experimental medicine, the only option left would have been merely to make Alyssa as comfortable as possible.

“Eventually I would have passed away,” said Alyssa. Her mum, Kiona, said this time last year she had been dreading Christmas, “thinking this is our last with her”. And then she “just cried” through her daughter’s 13th birthday in January.