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CAR-T cancer therapy
July 8 , 2024
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- Car-T therapy is a short for “chimeric antigen receptor T-cell”.
- It is a cutting-edge treatment that reprogrammes a patient’s immune cells to fight their cancer.
- This innovative approach involves taking T-cells, a type of white blood cell that plays a crucial role in the immune system.
- T-cells taken from a patient and modifying them in a laboratory to better recognise and attack cancer cells.
- These enhanced T-cells are then multiplied and infused back into the patient, where they seek out and destroy cancer cells.
- Lots of data shows that in difficult-to-treat lymphomas, a type of cancer, patients can do so well.
- Now, it is found that this will be causing new cancers in some patients who had undergone the treatment.
- Rarely, patients developed new immune-cell cancers, such as lymphomas or leukaemias, which are types of blood cell cancer.
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