Baby girl receives 'miracle' therapy to cure cancer
A one-year-old girl with an aggressive form of leukaemia has made what doctors are calling a 'miracle' recovery after undergoing a treatment never before tested on humans.
Layla Richards became the first person in the world to have the designer immune cell therapy, which is being hailed as a potential breakthrough for cancer patients.
Layla was just 14 weeks old when she was diagnosed with acute lymphoblastic leukaemia, the most common form of childhood cancer, and failed to respond to treatment.
With no other option left, doctors at Great Ormond Street Hospital offered her parents the chance to try out gene-modifying therapy, which has only ever been tested in a lab.
After the treatment, Layla spent months in isolation but is now free of the disease and recovering at home.
Dr Hilary joins us on the sofa to tell us more about the treatment and what this means for cancer patients.