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Prior to CAR T-cell infusion, the patient receives disease-specific chemotherapy, which creates space within the immune system to allow the infused reprogrammed CAR T-cells to grow and multiply.

For more information or to refer a patient for CAR T-Cell Therapy or TIL Therapy, please call 404-255-1930.

CAR T-cell therapy is a highly specialized treatment that involves:

  • Removing immune system T-cells from the patient’s bloodstream.
  • Sending T-cells to a manufacturing laboratory.
  • Genetically engineering (reprogramming) T-cells to produce special receptors on their surface called chimeric antigen receptors, or CARs, enabling the T-cells to better recognize and kill cancer cells.
  • Expanding T-cells to make billions of new enhanced T-cells.
  • Infusing CAR T-cell product back into the patient to target and kill malignant cancer cells.

Northside Hospital Cancer Institute is an authorized treatment center for CAR T-cell therapies that treat the following blood cancers:

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Explained: CAR T-cell therapy


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