Mercy Health teams with OHC on new cancer treatment

Mercy Health-Cincinnati ’s Jewish Hospital is partnering with the physician group OHC Inc. to offer a new kind of immunotherapy for adults with certain types of blood cancer. The hospital in Kenwood and Linwood-based OHC are the first in Greater Cincinnati to provide Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-Cell Therapy, also known as CAR-T.  The therapy involves a doctor removing some of a patient’s immune system cells, modifying them in a laboratory so they will recognize and kill cancer, and then infusing…
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