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Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) is to become the first hospital in the UK to offer a pioneering cancer therapy, known as CAR-T therapy, to NHS patients with an aggressive blood cancer called B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.

Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) is to become the first hospital in the UK to offer a pioneering cancer therapy, known as CAR-T therapy, to NHS patients with B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia (ALL). The first patients begin treatment at GOSH this week.

Yaseer has been a patient at Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) for most of his life. Since his first open heart surgery when he was five years old, he has been touched by the care and expertise of those who have looked after him. 

A team from Great Ormond Street Hospital (GOSH) and University College London Hospitals (UCLH) have carried out the first two operations on the damaged spinal cords of babies in the womb, in what are the first surgeries of their kind in the UK.

On the night of 23 February 2013, Violet, a healthy, seven-year-old girl suffered a cardiac arrest. Up until that point, her parents never had cause for any concern.