A cancer treatment that one expert called the 'most exciting thing I've seen in my lifetime' just got approved to treat more patients (NVS, GILD)

Reuters

• The FDA just approved a cutting-edge therapy to treat more patients with certain forms of blood cancer.
• It's the second approval for the drug, Kymriah, which is now approved to treat certain forms of leukemia and lymphoma.  
• The therapy works by taking a person's own cells, reprogramming them, and inserting them back into the body to fight the cancer — in this case, certain forms of blood cancer.

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The FDA just approved a cutting-edge cancer therapy to treat another form of blood cancer. 

It's the second approval for Kymriah, also known as tisagenlecleucel, this time to treat patients with large B-cell lymphoma, and the first for adult patients. An August approval of Kymriah approved the therapy to treat pediatric acute lymphoblastic leukemia in people up to age 25.

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