Cell therapy treats refractory lymphoma

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United States

Yescarta, a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy, has delivered positive results in a Phase 2 study of patients with relapsed or refractory large B cell lymphoma after one prior therapy. The patients were all ineligible for chemotherapy and autologous stem cell transplantation. Yescarta (axicabtagene ciloleucel) is already approved for several lymphoma indications in the US and Europe.