For certain side effects of complex and lifesaving medical procedures, care teams can be left with limited and risky treatment options, but a program at UW Health is changing that using patients’ own cells as “living therapeutics.”
In 2017, the UW Program for Advanced Cell Therapy (PACT), in partnership with the UW Carbone Cancer Center, began examining this possibility and recently treated its first patients in a first-of-its-kind clinical trial to treat dry mouth – technically termed xerostomia – which is a serious side effect that can arise after radiation therapy in head and neck cancer patients.
Read the full article at: https://www.med.wisc.edu/news-and-events/2022/may/study-tests-treatment-for-dry-mouth/?fbclid=IwAR2yKA3wFHUweWWe_VEyCykLDCQbeB4mK9YaqBX5_73C4pM2G1OAz5PagHQ