and have less of an impact on the body's healthy, normal cells," Ansell said in a Mayo news release.is cured," he added. "When people are cured, they may have to deal with long-term complications. Our idea is to have the best outcomes and minimize long-term problems.", Non-Hodgkin lymphoma, diagnosed among Americans each year, and just over 20,000 deaths annually. The disease tends to strike men more often than women.
Nearly 8,600 cases of Hodgkin lymphoma, the second major type, are diagnosed each year, and it kills just over 900 people annually. This type oftrigger the body's own immune system to seek and destroy the lymphoma cells. These include what are known as immune-checkpoint therapyCAR-T stands for "chimeric antigen receptor-T cell" therapy.