Finally having our own gene therapy or the T cell therapy is in India that has cut down costs from INR 4 crores to under 40 lakhs of rupees, making it affordable for not only cancer patients from India but for those from around the world. One medical practitioner has claimed to have come up with a vaccination that can cost a mere 100 bucks to prevent cancer! In any case, the race to inventing the cancer vaccine is on and India is a co-runner in the pack with America, China, Russia and other European nations. The T cell therapy that is now selectively available in US and European hospitals for treating cancer, is finally available in India as local hospitals warm up to the new idea. Unlike chemotherapy, the established standard medical treatment for cancer that is sold over-the-counter like ‘one size fits for all’, the T cell therapy has to be customized for each and every patient which will make it complex to administer. The success rate with volunteers so far is promising.
The miracle breakthrough was realized at Tata Memorial Hospital in Mumbai very recently. Kudos to our medical researchers and oncologists and the entire medical fraternity that shall be rendering very soon chemotherapy redundant. In a third world nation like India, this means a lot to the masses. As we pioneer in the newly developed medical technology, the costs of treatment are bound to go down. India will be seeing more or perhaps heavy load of foreign patients, we being a well established medical tourist destination already.
https://pib.gov.in/PressReleasePage.aspx?PRID=2017169
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