Emily Whitehead was diagnosed with an aggressive form of cancer called acute lymphoblastic leukemia (ALL) at the tender age of 5 in 2010. She had relapsed twice after chemotherapy and was out of options and near death when she was treated with an experimental chimeric antigen receptor T cell (CAR-T) gene therapy at Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) that saved her life. Emily’s story was published on the front page of the New York Times in December 2012.
Three years later at the American Society of HematologyAnnual Meeting, pharmaceutical giant Novartis AG revealed that Emily was not alone
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