CAR T-cell therapy to be funded for three lymphomas

Australia to be one of the few countries to manufacture the treatment
Clare Pain
Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre
The Peter MacCallum Cancer Centre in Melbourne.

Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy for certain relapsed and refractory patients with three types of lymphoma will be publicly funded, Minister for Health Greg Hunt has announced.

Eligible patients will be certain adults with diffuse large B-cell lymphoma or the rarer conditions of transformed follicular lymphoma and primary mediastinal B-cell lymphoma.