This is a summary of a New York Times article: From No Hope to a Potential Cure for a Deadly Blood Cancer – The New York Times, June 3, 2025. All information is from The New York Times, including the featured photo.
Scientific advancement isn’t abstract. It’s real people like patients, doctors, and students, working toward solutions. This therapy could one day reach cancer patients across Georgia and the world. It is important to remember that science is important because it transforms lives.
For example – an immunotherapy called CAR-T (which involves engineering a patient’s own white blood cells to attack the cancer) may offer a cure for blood cancer.
A study involving 97 patients with advanced, treatment-resistant multiple myeloma—a deadly and previously incurable blood cancer—has shown positive results from CAR-T. CAR-T was developed by Legend Biotech in China and marketed as Carvykti by Johnson & Johnson.
One-third of the patients experienced complete remission, meaning after five years, the cancer has not returned in those patients. Experts are careful to not call the use of CAR-T immunotherapy a cure because more research is still needed. However, its effectiveness looks productive for the future of medical advancement.
This story is just one example of the positive benefits of science on society. Science acts as our frontline defense against global challenges of which left and right sources agree depends on rigorous, evidence-based inquiry, free from ideological interference. From curing diseases and preventing disasters, to healing the planet, successes like the Montreal Protocol (which curbed ozone depletion) have been threatened, nevertheless.
In states like Georgia, where top research institutions like Emory University and Georgia Tech drive cutting-edge medical research, breakthroughs like this are possible. They represent a future of possibility, driven by continued investment in science and healthcare.
