Fight cancer with your own immune cells
Cancer treatment has typically included three main approaches—chemotherapy, radiation and surgery. Now, immunotherapy gives you a fourth tool to defeat cancer.
Through cellular therapies in Dallas, we take your own immune cells, reprogram and multiply them in our lab, and infuse them back into your blood as new cancer-attacking cells. Other therapies use specific proteins or drugs to boost your immune system and help it fight cancer better.
Pioneering research and treatment in immunotherapies in Dallas, Baylor University Medical Center is one of the first North Texas providers to offer adult commercial use of chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy, or CAR-T, to treat patients with large B-cell lymphoma and acute lymphoblastic leukemia. We are also one of the first in the nation to offer FDA-approved tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL) cellular therapy for patients with metastatic melanoma.
Depending on your cancer, some immunotherapies include: