The 16-Year-Old Girl Who Defeated an «Incurable» Leukemia Through a Breakthrough Gene Therapy

Leukemia has long been considered one of the most challenging cancers to treat, especially when it reaches an advanced and aggressive stage. For many patients whose disease does not respond to chemotherapy or bone marrow transplantation, doctors have traditionally had very limited options beyond palliative care. In recent years, however, breakthroughs in genetic medicine have begun to change this reality. One of the most remarkable examples of this progress is the case of a teenage girl named Alyssa Tapley, whose recovery has become a symbol of hope for patients with previously untreatable blood cancers.