Sebastian Bargo Sydney Photo Shoot
Sebastian Bargo Sydney Photo Shoot
By Sam Ruttyn
22 June, 2018
Sebastian Bargo Sydney Photo Shoot
Sebastian Bargo Sydney Photo Shoot
By Sam Ruttyn
22 June, 2018
Sebastian Bargo Sydney Photo Shoot
Sebastian Bargo Sydney Photo Shoot
By Sam Ruttyn
22 June, 2018
Sebastian Bargo Sydney Photo Shoot
Sebastian Bargo Sydney Photo Shoot
By Sam Ruttyn
22 June, 2018
Sebastian Bargo Sydney Photo Shoot
Sebastian Bargo Sydney Photo Shoot
By Sam Ruttyn
22 June, 2018
Sebastian Bargo Sydney Photo Shoot
Sebastian Bargo Sydney Photo Shoot
By Sam Ruttyn
22 June, 2018
Sebastian Bargo Sydney Photo Shoot
Sebastian Bargo Sydney Photo Shoot
By Sam Ruttyn
22 June, 2018
There are many medical miracles but Sebastian Bargo is hard to beat — the little boy given a death sentence by cancer who ­became the first Australian child to be cured by a treatment so cutting edge, it’s ­almost science fiction.
A year ago, Sebastian, 6, was dying from stage four Acute Lymphoblastic Leukaemia, or ALL. Chemotherapy had failed, as had a bone-marrow transplant.
But an American hospital was pioneering an immunotherapy treatment called Car-T Cell that was his only hope. In an Australian first, Sebastian’s white blood cells were removed and sent to Philadelphia’s Children’s Hospital where they were engineered to hunt down and destroy his cancer.
“We went over last ­December and he had an ­infusion of the cells. It took only minutes but the T-cells had been taken months ­before,” his mum Dasha said.
Sebastian was very ill for three weeks after the ­infusion as his rebooted ­immune system fought the cancer — but then he started to get better.
“It was our last hope, they wanted to do another transplant here but that only had a 30 per cent chance of working. With the Car-T cells treatment, they gave us odds of 93 per cent. Now he is perfect, like a normal child,” Ms Bargo said. 


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