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Lupus can be debilitating and sometimes deadly for the 3 million people who have it. A treatment called CAR T appears to stop it in its tracks.
ANSWER: The term “lupus” generally means systemic lupus erythematosis (SLE), which is a systemic disorder (as its name ...
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An autoantibody associated with systemic lupus erythematosus may help improve the performance of immune checkpoint inhibitor therapies used to treat cancers, according to recent findings.“Our ...
Five patients with uncontrolled lupus went into complete remission after undergoing a repurposed cancer treatment called CAR-T-cell therapy, which largely wiped out their rogue immune cells.
“Lupus has a broad range of symptoms, often leading it to be called ‘the great imitator’, as it can resemble many other illnesses,” adds Goncalves. “Because lupus symptoms overlap with many other ...
It's most commonly used to treat cancer, according to Dr. Emily Littlejohn, Butler's rheumatologist at the Cleveland Clinic. The first study researching CAR-T therapy as a lupus treatment was ...
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It’s the first day of May, and that means it’s Lupus Awareness Month. Lupus is a chronic autoimmune disease and just one of more than 80 autoimmune conditions that affect millions of Americans.