For many patients diagnosed with certain types of B-cell lymphoma, leukemia and multiple myeloma, chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy offers an effective treatment option. This cellular therapy is created by extracting a patient’s T cells, modifying them in a lab to identify and attack cancer cells, and returning them to the patient.
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Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy has been an amazing advance for treating blood cancers like leukemia, lymphoma and multiple...