Sickle cell gene therapies roll out slowly
Briefly

"It gets to the point sometimes where you're like, I cannot continue living this way,' she says. You feel like you're losing your mind."
"I'm very excited for the possibilities, she says. This is probably the best time in history right now for sickle cell patients."
"One big hesitation is over the chemotherapy needed to make room for genetically altered cells in her bone marrow. But the chemotherapy would endanger her chances of having kids."
"While there's a lot of excitement about the treatments among sickle cell patients... only about 60 of the thousands of patients are expected to undergo the new gene therapies."
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