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Cellular therapy is when certain types of cells are infused into a person to help treat a disease. This includes stem cell transplants, or blood and marrow transplants (BMT), and CAR T-cell therapy.
All these treatments require a lot of time and commitment. These are intensive treatments with many important steps. Review the book that matches the type of treatment you will be receiving.
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Stem cell transplants use healthy stem cells from bone marrow to cure or control your disease, or to put it into remission. If you receive this treatment, you will first get chemotherapy and sometimes radiation to destroy your cancer cells or make room in your bone marrow. After your chemotherapy healthy stem cells will be put in your body. These stem cells make their way to your bone marrow and produce healthy blood cells.
There are two types:
Your doctor will tell you what kind of stem cell transplant you need.
Allogeneic Stem Cell Transplant
Autologous Stem Cell Transplant
CAR T-cell therapy is a treatment that helps your immune system find and attack cancer cells. T-cells are a type of white blood cell. The T-cells are collected from the patient and sent to a lab where they are turned into special cells, called CAR T-cells that are better at finding and destroying the cancer cells in the body. Once the lab has enough CAR T-cells, they are infused back into the person's body to attack the cancer cells.
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