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CAR T-Cell Therapy Infographic

This illustration shows the steps for creating CAR T-cell therapy, a type of treatment in which a patient's T cells (a type of immune system cell) are changed in the laboratory so they will attack cancer cells.

CAR T-cell therapy is a type of treatment in which a patient’s T cells are genetically engineered in the laboratory so they will bind to specific proteins (antigens) on cancer cells and kill them.
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