‘Miracle’ Baby Beats Aggressive Leukemia After Successful CAR-T Cancer Immunotherapy

Chasity, who will celebrate her 2nd birthday this month, shows no signs of cancer after successfully undergoing CAR T therapy — and is one of the youngest patients to receive this advanced cancer treatment. Few centers in the country are approved to offer CAR T, short for chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy, which involves removing a patient’s own immune cells through a process similar to a blood draw, bolstering them to make them more effective at recognizing and killing cancer cells, and infusing them back into the patient with the goal of providing long-term protection against cancer.