A cancer treatment that one expert called the 'most exciting thing I've seen in my lifetime' just got approved to treat more patients (NVS, GILD)
Reuters
- The FDA just approved a cutting-edge therapy to treat more patients with certain forms of blood cancer.
- It's the second approval for the drug, Kymriah, which is now approved to treat certain forms of leukemia and lymphoma.
- The therapy works by taking a person's own cells, reprogramming them, and inserting them back into the body to fight the cancer — in this case, certain forms of blood cancer.
The FDA just approved a cutting-edge cancer therapy to treat another form of blood cancer.
It's the second approval for Kymriah, also known as tisagenlecleucel, this time to treat patients with large B-cell lymphoma, and the first for adult patients. An August approval of Kymriah approved the therapy to treat pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia in people up to age 25.See the rest of the story at Business Insider
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