'She has big things ahead of her.' CAR-T cell therapy gives Florida teen hope

Brooke Michael knows more than the average teenager about being strong. In November 2020, then 17 years old and a high school athlete, Brooke was diagnosed with primary B-cell lymphoma,
When treatment wasn’t working, she turned to the Mayo Clinic Cancer Center where physicians believed Brooke was a good candidate for chimeric antigen receptor-T cell therapy (CAR-T cell therapy). The personalized treatment collects a patient's T cells, which normally help fight off infections, and genetically engineers them to target lymphoma. Today, physicians say her disease has almost completely gone as she returned to her athletic life.
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