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Help patients with CAR-T Matters!
Help patients with CAR-T Matters!
Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cell Immunotherapy OR CAR-T therapy. It’s a type of treatment in which a patient’s T cells (a type of immune system cell) are changed in the laboratory so they will attack cancer cells.
T cells are taken from a patient’s blood. Then the gene for a special receptor that binds to a certain protein on the patient’s cancer cells is added to the T cells in the laboratory. The special receptor is called a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR). Large numbers of the CAR T cells are grown in the laboratory and given to the patient by infusion.
CAR T-cell therapy is used to treat certain blood cancers such as
It is being studied in the treatment of other types of cancer. Also called chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy.
