CAR T-cell therapy involves collecting a patient’s immune cells and engineering them to recognize and destroy cancer cells before returning them to the body through an IV infusion. (IMAGE)

Roswell Park Comprehensive Cancer Center

CAR T-cell therapy involves collecting a patient’s immune cells and engineering them to recognize and destroy cancer cells before returning them to the body through an IV infusion.

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CAR T-cell therapy involves collecting a patient’s immune cells and engineering them to recognize and destroy cancer cells before returning them to the body through an IV infusion. This process takes place at the Roswell Park GMP Engineering & Cell Manufacturing Facility (GEM), one of the largest of its kind in the United States.

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