Life-saving treatments available, but at exorbitant cost


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CAR-T cell therapy is one type of cell therapy where the patient’s immune cells are collected and genetically modified to better fight lymphoma, leukaemia and multiple myeloma. — TNS

Harnessing the body’s own cells to fight disease – long a medical dream – is finally a reality.

Now comes the bill.

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