Patients with previously incurable cancer are seeing incredible results thanks to a pioneering new treatment that has just completed early trials. The world-first gene therapy is called BE-CAR7, and it’s being tested in children and adults with an aggressive form of leukemia. The rest of this article is behind a paywall. Please sign in or subscribe to access the full content.

The first patient to undergo the treatment was Alyssa Tapley, now aged 16. Tapley, from Leicester in the UK, was diagnosed with T-cell acute lymphoblastic leukemia in May 2021. Her cancer did not respond to the standard treatments of chemotherapy and bone marrow transplant, which is true for about 20 percent of children with this diagnosis. The family were essentially out of options when the clinical trial was pro

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