DOCTOR’S NOTE

New blood cancer treatment trials

A trial of a new treatment has seen 18 patients with incurable blood cancer go into remission.

The treatment trains the body’s own white blood cells to attack the cancerous cells, which cause multiple myeloma, an incurable type of blood cancer.

Known as ARI-0001, the therapy is cheaper by around a third than other medications that are currently used to treat the killer cancer.

The trial at Barcelona Clinic Hospital involved 30 patients with multiple myeloma, all of whom had traditional treatments such as bone marrow transplants or chemotherapy fail, meaning their chance of survival was low.