Chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy, is also known as CAR T-cell therapy, it is a recently developed live medicine effective in the treatment of lymphoma.

The treatment requires T cells to be collected from patient’s body and genetically engineered in the lab, so that they can find and kill cancer. It has great potential to cure lymphoma, and the therapy has been approved in China for various types of lymphoma.

This is an expensive treatment, however, it is offered in China at an affordable cost. Learn more about CAR T-cell therapy.

Biological treatment. This is a drug treatment that stimulates the immune system to attack the cancer. The drug achieves this by introducing living microorganisms into the body.

Antibody therapy. A medical professional inserts synthetic antibodies into the bloodstream. These respond to the cancer’s toxins.

Chemotherapy. An aggressive drug treatment to target and kill cancer cells.

Radioimmunotherapy. This delivers high powered radioactive doses directly into cancerous B cells and T-cells to destroy them.

Radiotherapy. A doctor may recommend this type of therapy to target and destroy small areas of cancer. Radiation therapy uses concentrated doses of radiation to kill cancerous cells.

Hormone-blocking therapy. Doctors use hormone-blocking therapy to prevent hormone-sensitive breast cancers from returning after treatment. The therapy may help treat estrogen receptor-positive and progesterone receptor-positive cancers.

Surgery. A surgeon may remove the spleen or other organs after the lymphoma has spread. However, a cancer specialist, or oncologist, will more commonly request surgery to obtain a biopsy.