Missouri resident among first to try new cancer treatment | Life | register-herald.com

The U.S. Food and Drug Administration in October approved Yescarta, a one-time, custom-made CAR-T treatment for aggressive lymphoma in adults.

CAR-T treatment uses gene therapy techniques not to fix disease-causing genes but to turbocharge T cells, immune system soldiers that cancer can often evade.

Source: Missouri resident among first to try new cancer treatment | Life | register-herald.com

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