CRISPR Gene Editing Technology Provides Accurate, Successful Complete Cancer Treatment, Recovery

CRISPR and its recent approval of human trial using the gene-editing technique in the United States target to accurately provide full cancer treatments. The breakthrough is aimed at making the treatment process cheaper and more accurate.

Dr. Carl June, a researcher, revealed to use T cells, the body's natural defense system component that repels viruses and other invaders, as a main component in attacking tumors and cancer cells.

To make the T cells effective against these cancers, researchers plan to snip out pieces of three genes using CRISPR/Cas9 technology. Reportedly, the cells are isolated from the patient's blood before the edit is performed on the T cells, which should be injected back into the patient.

Cancer diagnosis through early screenings are more likely to result to positive treatment response. According to National Cancer Institute (NCI), although there has been progress in cancer treatment, diagnosis, and prevention over the past several decades, addressing cancer health disparities like higher cancer death rates, less frequent use of proven screening tests, and staggering rates of advanced cancer diagnoses, confidence in accurate cancer treatment has not been improved in decades, still.

The CRISPR/Cas9 technology, however, will be the most awaited revolutionary treatment of cancer emphasizing on full recovery, Singularity Hub reported. The technology is also aiming to address the economic aspect of the entire journey into a more affordable ordeal.

"I do believe that the promise of this technology is really amazing. It can be done quickly and it doesn't cost a lot of money," Udo Schuklenk, Professor and Ontario Research Chair in Bioethics at Queens University told to CBC News.

Cancer has been a chronic disease that has put every patient's life in tremendous danger. People has perceived cancer as a toxic disease, where patients go through states of depression and pain. While numerous testimonials about full recovery from the illness have circulated the world with the purpose of inspiring other patients, the degree by which people rely on the treatment modalities have remained low still.