Johns Hopkins All Children's becomes first Florida pediatric hospital to have unique leukemia therapy

Johns Hopkins All Children ’s Hospital is now the first pediatric hospital in Florida offering a cutting-edge cellular immunotherapy for advanced leukemia in children and young adults. It will be offering CAR-T Cell Gene Therapy for leukemia. Chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy, or CAR-T, uses a patient’s own cel ls to fight acute lymphoblastic leukemia, which affects more than 3,000 young people in the U.S. each year. This gene therapy is designed for patients who do not respond to standard…
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