>> I'm going to explain how
immunotherapy works.
We turn your T cells into super cells that
can find and destroy cancer cells.
Let's take a look.
T cells, a type of white blood cell, are designed
to kill disease cells.
But cancerous B cells often look like your
own normal healthy cells, so T cells don't
go after them.
We're learning how to change that.
We collect millions of T cells from the patient
then we reprogram them in a lab so they can
now identify the B cells and grab onto a substance
that is found only on the surface of B cells.
When we put the reprogrammed T cells back
into the patient, they flow throughout the
body and begin locating cancerous B cells.
As the reprogrammed T cells attach to and
destroy the rapidly dividing cancerous B cells,
they also multiply in the body and they can
remain in the body long after to continue
fighting any lingering cancerous B cells.
For more information about our Cancer Immunotherapy Program, go to CHOP.edu/cancerimmunotherapy.
