Medical Xpress September 29, 2024
Roughly 635,000 new cases of lymphoma were diagnosed worldwide, according to the World Cancer Research Fund International’s most recent report. Survival rates for aggressive lymphomas have improved significantly thanks to advances in treatment, such as chimeric antigen receptor-T cell therapy (CAR-T cell therapy).
Dr. Madiha Iqbal, a Mayo Clinic hematologist and oncologist, explains that CAR-T cell therapy is a personalized and innovative treatment giving hope to patients diagnosed with various lymphomas.
“Lymphoma in plain terms is essentially a cancer of your immune system,” says Dr. Iqbal.
Patients who are newly diagnosed with lymphoma are offered a combination of chemotherapy and antibody-based treatments. But for those who do not respond to two or...
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