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• T-cell immunotherapy is SAVING KIDS

• T-cells are a critical part of everyone’s normal immune system

• T-cell therapy uses the patient's own immune system to fight cancer

• T-cells are collected from the patient with a simple blood draw and modified in a special lab to attack cancer cells.  The modified T- cells are then injected back into the patient as specialized “cancer fighters”

• The living modified cancer fighting T-cells are returned to the child’s blood stream, where they circulate to find tumor cells for a long time.  This decreases the amount of treatments needed as compared to other treatment types such as chemo and radiation that require multiple visits over weeks to months. 

  • In other words, the modified T-cells now 

    • Recognize the cancer cells 

    • Search the body and find the cancer cells

    • Attack and kill the cancer cells

    • Invite other cancer fighting cells to join in the attack