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Feb 2, 2022 · In 2010, doctors treated Doug Olson’s leukemia with an experimental gene therapy that transformed some of his blood cells into cancer killers. More than a decade later, there’s no sign of cancer in his body.
Feb 2, 2022 · Doug Olson is one of the two patients who have been declared cured of leukemia after receiving CAR-T cells, a revolutionary treatment that reprograms the immune system to fight cancer. Learn how he participated in the experimental trial, what he experienced and how he feels now.
Feb 2, 2022 · I n 2010, Doug Olson became the second person in the world to receive CAR-T cell therapy, an experimental tactic to engineer his own immune cells to fight cancer.
Feb 2, 2022 · Feb. 2, 2022. Doug Olson was feeling kind of tired in 1996. When a doctor examined him she frowned. “I don’t like the feel of those lymph nodes,” she said, poking his neck. She ordered a...
Jun 9, 2022 · Doug Olson may be 75 years old, but he feels great. He's still cancer-free 11 years after he potentially faced death from a blood cancer called chronic lymphocytic leukemia. At that time, his doctors informed him that the treatments he had been trying we not working.
Feb 2, 2022 · A few weeks after receiving an experimental cancer therapy that turns immune cells into tumour-killing hunters, Doug Olson’s doctor sat him down to give him news of his progress.
Feb 2, 2022 · Doug Olson, an early clinical trial participant for CAR T cells at Penn’s Abramson Cancer Center, celebrates his 75th birthday with family after more than 10 years in remission from his leukemia. PHILADELPHIA — In the summer of 2010, Bill Ludwig and Doug Olson were battling an insidious blood cancer called chronic lymphocytic ...
