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Breakthrough in the treatment of lupus comes from CAR-T therapy against cancer

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Breakthrough in the treatment of lupus comes from CAR-T therapy against cancer

ERLANGEN, Germany – In 2021, researchers in Germany reported something astonishing. Using a new approach, they had put a young woman’s lupus – a case so severe that her organs were failing – into remission.

Like other autoimmune diseases, in which the immune system attacks the body, lupus is a chronic condition; it doesn’t just disappear. The best hope for patients is that their diseases can be suppressed if they remain adherent to the medications. But this 20-year-old woman had seen her disease wiped out. She stopped taking other medications.

It was normal a single case reportand in any case, the team was not well known in the global lupus research community. The paper didn’t get much traction.

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