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Kymriah®, a revolutionary drug to induce treatment remission in recalcitrant cancers
US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and Oncologic Drugs Advisory Committee (ODAC) have unanimously approved CTL019 (tisagenlecleucel) or Kymriah®, an investigational chimeric antigen receptor T cell (CAR-T) therapy. It has been approved for its use in the treatment of relapsed or refractory B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia in paediatric and young adult patients, making it the first approval of a CAR-T therapy for humans. In layman’s terms, it involves reprogramming an individual’s immune cells to make them better at targeting diseased cells such as cancerous cells. Discussing the details of the product and its working, the author expects paradigm shift towards transformation to such adoptive cell therapies to supplement the reach of conventional surgical, chemo- and radio- therapeutic options along with other advancements in medicine including the promising targeted therapies with small molecules and biologics.
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