Visakhapatnam, Nov 4 (UNI) Apollo Cancer Centers, Visakhapatnam on Tuesday said it has introduced CAR-T cell therapy for the first time in the state of Andhra Pradesh.
CAR-T cell therapy is a revolutionary treatment approach for difficult to treat blood cancers where conventionally available treatments have failed, the hospital said in a release here.
CAR-T cell therapies are biological drugs and it involve extracting immune cells called T-lymphocytes, from patient’s body then re-programming these T-cells to engage specific targets on the surfaces of certain cancer cells.