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Immunotherapy treatment CAR-T is letting people talk about a cure for cancer – The Australian Financial Review
Cure. It’s a term not often used when it comes to cancer. But that was before an emerging immunotherapy treatment known as CAR-T.
In Australia, Melbournes Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre was responsible for performing the countrys first CAR-T trial in 2007. It is also the home of the Centre of Excellence in Cellular Immunotherapy, which was established with government support in 2019. This centre will provide more than 200 leukaemia and lymphoma cancer patients access to immunotherapies including CAR-T.
Twenty-five years ago when CAR-T was little more than an idea, Peter Macs Professor Phillip Darcy recalls there was scepticism…
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