Immunity boosting treatment enhances CAR-T cell therapy for blood cancers

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Immunity boosting treatment enhances CAR-T cell therapy for blood cancers

Advances in cellular immunotherapy that spur genetically modified T cells to attack cancer cells have revolutionized the treatment of certain blood cancers. Six such CAR-T cell therapies are approved by the Food and Drug Administration to treat certain types of leukemia, lymphoma and multiple myeloma. Still, some patients’ tumors don’t respond well to these therapies, and many patients who do well initially later see their cancers return.

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