A guide to the benefits of CAR-T immunotherapy
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A guide to the benefits of CAR-T immunotherapy

Pavan Amara Nurse, midwife and health journalist

Nurses can have a key role to play in the patient journeys for people given chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy

Chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy, known as CAR-T or CAR T-cell therapy, is a relatively new form of immunotherapy that can be used to treat some cancers. During CAR-T therapy, which became available in the UK in 2018, a person’s immune system cells are collected and reprogrammed to target cancer.

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