The US Food and Drug Administration on Friday said it had approved expanded use of Gilead Sciences Inc's Yescarta cell therapy as a first option after chemotherapy for adults with an advanced, aggressive form of blood cancer.
Yescarta is part of a class of treatments known as CAR-Ts, which involve taking immune system blood cells from a patient, shipping them to a plant to be re-engineered to better fight certain cancers, and then returning them to the patient. FILE PHOTO
Yescarta is part of a class of treatments known as CAR-Ts, which involve taking immune system blood cells from a patient, shipping them to a plant to be re-engineered to better fight certain cancers, and then returning them to the patient. The FDA said the drug's label warns of the risk of a serious complication associated with CAR-T therapy called cytokine release syndrome, which can cause a range of dangerous symptoms including fever and neurological problems.
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