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High-tech cancer therapy unveiled in Wellington

September 23, 2021

The Malaghan Institute hopes the technology will help treat certain types of blood cancers.

State of the art technology to treat bloood cancers has been unveiled at the Malaghan Institute in Wellington on Thursday morning. 

It's known as CAR T-Cell Therapy and works by treating a patient's own immune cells (t-cells) in the lab before they are transfused back to them. 

The Malaghan Institute hopes to scale up therapy to lower costs and make New Zealand attractive to medical tourism. 

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Vials of blood collected for testing. (Source: istock.com)

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