CAR T-cell therapy is a groundbreaking, one-time therapy that uses versions of your own immune cells to find and destroy tough-to-treat blood cancers, such as multiple myeloma and leukemia.
Chemotherapy is a medication or combination of medications used to treat cancer. Chemotherapy can be given orally (as a pill) or injected intravenously (IV).
If the physician performs a sentinel lymph node biopsy, and cancer is found in the sentinel nodes, it is likely a lymph node dissection will be advised to remove the other lymph nodes in the area.
A stem cell transplant is a treatment where diseased or abnormal cells are eliminated, followed by infusion of healthy stem cells that travel to the bone marrow and restore normal blood cell production.
