Understanding CAR T-cell therapy

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CAR T-cell therapy, sometimes called CAR T, uses your body's own cells to fight cancer. It has been shown to help patients with some blood cancers.

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After receiving CAR T, some patients saw some, or all, symptoms of cancer disappear.^*

CAR T has over 10 years of
research data, and has been approved since 2017

6 available CAR T-cell therapies to help treat 6 different blood cancers (as of July 2024). It is also being studied to see if it can treat more types of cancer and other diseases

Over 34,000 blood cancer
patients treated worldwide (as of January 2024)

^*There is a chance that cancer symptoms may come back.

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