'Next wave' of cancer treatments trains immune system to target illness: doctor

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Multiple provinces are investing in a form of T-cell therapy that could offer hope for cancer patients who are running out of treatment options, according to an Ontario physician.

Chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy is a new treatment that targets certain types of blood cancers, specifically forms of leukemia and lymphoma. T-cells are a type of white blood cell that play a role in immune response to illness.

“When we take those T-cells out from a patient’s own immune system, we take it to the lab, we re-engineer it, and then we re-infuse it into a patient to really target their own cancer,” she said. This type of therapy can target other forms of cancer outside of leukemia and lymphoma, she said. “Hopefully it will target lots of cancers that are difficult to treat.”

 

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