Black 12-Year-Old Patient Begins New Sickle Cell Therapy Treatment

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The first patient to undergo a new and innovative treatment for sickle cell disease is a 12-year-old Black child from Washington D.C.A new commercially approved gene therapy designed to treat and possibly cure sickle therapy had its first patient last Wednesday (May 1). Kendric Cromer, a Black 12-year-old who is from a suburb of Washington, D.C., began his first treatment administered by the Bluebird Bio company at Children’s National Hospital in the D.C. m