Clinical research
Being tested in people in registered clinical trials. Being in trials is not evidence that a treatment works or is safe.
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This is the study that made Casgevy an approved medicine. Participants with severe sickle cell disease had their own blood stem cells edited and returned. The main question was whether they would stop having the severe pain crises that define the disease — and for the large majority, they did.
An open-label, single-arm, multi-site Phase 2/3 study of autologous CRISPR-Cas9-modified CD34+ cells (CTX001, later exagamglogene autotemcel) in patients aged 12–35 with severe sickle cell disease. The primary endpoint was freedom from severe vaso-occlusive crises for at least 12 consecutive months. Results supported approvals by the MHRA, FDA and EMA.
Sources
- New England Journal of Medicine · 2024
Exagamglogene autotemcel for severe sickle cell disease ↗
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初期段階の結果は少人数の参加者と短い追跡期間から得られたものです。参加者が増え時間が経つにつれて変わる可能性があり、募集中・実施中・完了済みの試験であっても、治療効果が確立されたわけではありません。登録基準は厳格で、適格性の判断は試験実施施設が行うものであり、ウェブサイトが行うものではありません。