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Strategic Use of Patent Opposition Safeguard to Improve Equitable Access to Innovative Health Technologies: A Case Study of CAR T-Cell Therapy Kymriah
2023-07-29
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Kymriah is an innovative cancer therapy which works by removing disease fighting T-cells from patients, genetically modifying or reprogramming the immune cells to attack cancer, and re-infusing them back into the patients. It treats childhood blood and bone marrow cancer. The cost of this new hope-giving gene therapy is CHF 450,000 per treatment. This exorbitantly high price set by Novartis, in exercise of its exc...
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- Literature Corpus work
- 5a45bcd5-fe86-5399-929b-b08739f5f817
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- 10.2139/ssrn.4525009
