A TREATMENT that involves genetically modifying the body's immune cells has been found to cut the risk of disease progression by 74 percent in people with a rare type of blood cancer, results showed Monday (Tuesday in Manila).

Ciltacabtagene autoleucel — also known by its trade name Carvykti — was tested in a clinical trial involving 419 patients with multiple myeloma, whose disease was not responsive to the current frontline drug lenalidomide, a chemotherapy medicine.

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