Bernadette’s Last Hope for Beating Cancer: Will CAR-T Cell Therapy Cure Her Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma?

There is hope for people suffering from treatment resistant blood cancers like Non-Hodgkin's Lymphoma and Leukemia. It's CAR-T Cell Immunotherapy. Bernadette Deely received the treatment at the University of Maryland Marlene and Stewart Greenebaum Comprehensive Cancer Center. CAR-T Cell Therapy uses the body's own immune cells to fight cancer. But exactly how does it work, and will it save Bernadette?
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