1
Doctors take biopsies of primary tumour and metastases
Biopsy
Tumour
2
Immune cells that have infiltrated the tumour tissue are extracted from biopsy material and grown in the billions in a lab
3
Gene sequencing of the tumour tissue reveals the main mutations that characterise it
Gene sequence
4
Immune cells from tumour are screened to find those that target the cancer’s key mutations
Immune
cell
Cancerous
cell
5
These immune cells are infused back into patient where they attack and kill the cancer cells
T-cell
infusion
1
Doctors take biopsies of primary tumour and metastases
2
Immune cells that have infiltrated the tumour tissue are extracted from biopsy material and grown in the billions in a lab
3
Gene sequencing of the tumour tissue reveals the main mutations that characterise it
Biopsy
Gene sequence
Tumour
Cancerous
cell
T-cell
infusion
Immune cell
5
These immune cells are infused back into patient where they attack and kill the cancer cells
4
Immune cells from tumour are screened to find those that target the cancer’s key mutations