The medication uses a patient’s own white blood cells to treat acute lymphatic leukemia.
The FDA approved the first-ever gene therapy, a drug called Kymriah, in 2017. The medication uses a patient’s own white blood cells to treat acute lymphatic leukemia. Yescarta, another gene therapy approved in the same year, has provided at least partial remission for 72 percent of patients with non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma in clinical trials.