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Common Serious Side-Effect Of CAR T-Cell Therapy May Be Preventable – Forbes

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2018-05-28 NEWS

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Common Serious Side-Effect Of CAR T-Cell Therapy May Be Preventable
Forbes
It has been a good month for CAR T-Cell therapies. On May 1st, the FDA handed out an approval to Novartis’s controversially-priced Kymriah for treating adults with certain types of non-Hodgkin lymphoma. Today, simultaneous discoveries from scientists

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2018-05-28 NEWS

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Cancer-killing CAR T-cell immunotherapy to become more accessible to patients
Herald Sun
CAR T-cell therapy involves removing a patient’s immune cells, re-engineering them and infusing them back to create a “designer” immune system, usually as a last-ditch attempt to save their life. While still experimental, it has been able to “melt