what does car t do for cancer
Immunotherapy, also called biological therapy, utilizes your own immune system to fight cancer. It generally results in fewer short-term side effects than chemotherapy does. Immunotherapies being used or studied to treat blood cancer include: Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy. This is a type of immunotherapy. The patient cells are removed through apheresis and modified in a laboratory so they can be reprogrammed to target tumor cells through a gene modification technique. The cells are then returned to the patient following chemotherapy.