Outpatient CAR-T therapy can be safe, effective for blood cancer patients

Patients with a fast-spreading blood cancer respond well to outpatient treatment with CAR-T therapy, the largest study examining its use in a community setting has found.

CAR-T is shorthand for chimeric antigen receptor therapy. In this treatment, doctors remove the patient's own white blood cells, tweak them in a lab and then infuse them back into the patient to attack and kill cancer cells.

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