September 26, 2021

Abu Dhabi cancer research to pave way for more patients to be treated in the UAE

Abu Dhabi, 26 September, 2021; Clinical trials are under way into a new cancer therapy that will reduce the need for UAE patients to go overseas for treatment.

Car T-cell therapy, where stem cells are engineered to fight off cancer, is currently available at only a limited number of specialist hospitals in Europe, the USA and Israel.

Primarily suitable for the treatment of bone marrow and blood cancers, research into the therapy has been launched at the Abu Dhabi Stem Cells Centre (ADSCC) to bring the remedy to UAE hospitals.

The process extracts T cells – the bedrock of our immune systems – from a patient’s blood, which are then genetically altered in a lab.

A man-made receptor is added, called a chimeric antigen receptor, to improve the T-cells' ability to identity cancer cells and destroy them.

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