6yearold with advanced leukemia emily whitehead now 13 in eighth grade emily is still in good healthsometimes called living drugs two cart treatments were approved in 2017 for certain types of leukemia and lymphoma both products have unpronounceable names tisagenlecleucel kymriah and axicabtagene ciloleucel yescarta kymriah is the commercial version of emilys treatmentresearchers are testing the cart treatments in other blood cancers and trying to expand their uses and their power by programming them to attack a broader range of targets on cells so far they have not worked against socalled solid tumors like breast or colon cancer but scientists havent given up yet