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FDA approves a game-changing treatment for blood cancer
he Food and Drug Administration on Wednesday approved a promising new treatment for a particularly deadly form of cancer, bringing hope to desperate patients while rekindling a global conversation about the escalating cost of new therapies. The treatment, made by Gilead Sciences, is made by extracting patients’ white blood cells and re-engineering them to home in on tumors. Called a CAR-T, the one-time treatment has shown unprecedented results for patients with dire diagnoses.
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Great that this treatment is on its way. But it's sad but true that pharmaceutical companies, politicians & their lobbyists allow it to be so unaffordable for most.