Lurbinectedin is the first new drug approved for second line treatment since 1996.
New cancer cell treatment.
Small cell lung cancer remains a major unmet medical need.
By james gallagher health editor bbc news website.
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It genetically reprograms the t cell to seek out and recognise and destroy the patient s tumour cells.
Excitement at new cancer treatment.
Car t cell therapy is a treatment that helps t cells attack cancer more effectively.
The use of the cc treatment is not approved by the united states food and drug administration or any other government to combat cancer or to prevent treat cure or mitigate any disease or medical condition mentioned cited or described in any document or article on this website or any other information linked to this website from any other websites.
Kte x19 car t cell therapy in relapsed or refractory mantle cell lymphoma new england journal of medicine 2020.
To treat cancer doctors have employed surgery chemotherapy and radiation therapy for years but adoptive cell transfer is an immunotherapy treatment that has rapidly emerged in recent years.
Then they change genes in the cells to help them find and destroy.