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UVA Health Breakthrough for Pediatric Cancer | Charlottesville News
UVA Health Children’s just shattered records by becoming the first hospital to cure a child with cancer using CAR T-cell therapy — and it all started with an eight-year-old named Joshua Quintern battling a deadly relapse of Burkitt’s lymphoma. After standard treatments failed, his mom found a last-resort experimental therapy, prompting UVA’s doctors to craft a custom, FDA-approved plan. They reprogrammed Joshua’s own immune cells into cancer-hunting super-soldiers, and 58 days later — he was cancer-free. His triumphant bell-ringing moment symbolizes not just a personal victory, but a landmark…
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