Many of us in the oncology community will welcome lurbinectedin as a new standard option for patients with recurrent small cell lung cancer said dr.
New cancer cell treatment.
Lurbinectedin is the first new drug approved for second line treatment since 1996.
The use of the cc treatment is not approved by the united states food and drug administration or any other government to combat cancer or to prevent treat cure or mitigate any disease or medical condition mentioned cited or described in any document or article on this website or any other information linked to this website from any other websites.
Car t cell therapy is a treatment that helps t cells attack cancer more effectively.
It genetically reprograms the t cell to seek out and recognise and destroy the patient s tumour cells.
Doctors first remove t cells from your blood.
By james gallagher health editor bbc news website.
Excitement at new cancer treatment.
Charles rudin chief of the thoracic oncology service.
To treat cancer doctors have employed surgery chemotherapy and radiation therapy for years but adoptive cell transfer is an immunotherapy treatment that has rapidly emerged in recent years.
Then they change genes in the cells to help them find and destroy.