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In Depth: The Battle to Make Cancer’s ‘Living Drug’ Affordable

By Zhou Xinda and Cui Xiaotian
2026年01月09日 17:55
A revolutionary CAR-T therapy offers a last hope for blood cancer patients, but its astronomical price tag has created a chasm in the market, where the treatment’s price is killing sales and forcing families into desperate choices
Chimeric Antigen Receptor T-cell therapy, or CAR-T, retrains a patient’s own T-cells to recognize and attack cancer cells. For many patients with blood cancers like leukemia, it offers the hope of a one-time, curative treatment.

When Yu Yonggang was diagnosed with an aggressive form of lymphoma in 2013, he began a grueling three-year journey through 15 rounds of intravenous chemotherapy and 20 courses of oral chemo. With his cancer recurring and his body ravaged, doctors gave him about six months to live.

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