Journal Of Oncology Practice Podcast

Improving CAR-T Access

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Sinopsis

Dr. Chino talks with Dr. Navneet Majhail and patient advocate Laurie Adami about CAR-T therapy, an advance cancer treatment that biologically engineers a patient's own T-cells to recognize and kill cancer cells. This discussion will be based off the JCO OP article, "Outpatient Administration of Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cell Therapy Using Remote Patient Monitoring," on which Dr. Majhail served as lead author. TRANSCRIPT Dr. Fumiko Chino: Hello, and welcome to Put into Practice, the podcast for the JCO Oncology Practice. I'm Dr. Fumiko Chino, an associate professor in radiation oncology at MD Anderson Cancer Center with a research focus on access, affordability, and equity. CAR T-therapy is an advanced cancer treatment that biologically engineers a patient's own T cells to recognize and kill cancer cells. It has shown remarkable benefits, leading to long-term remission or even cure for select patients with hematological cancers that have not responded to other treatments. Primary trials were exclusively