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  "id": 6266784,
  "title": "Cheaper CAR-T therapy drawing global cancer patients to China",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/09/08/cheaper-car-t-therapy-drawing-global-cancer-patients-to-china",
  "topic": "health",
  "section": "Health & Medicine",
  "published": "2026-09-08T09:49:43.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Asia Times",
    "slug": "asia-times",
    "url": "https://asiatimes.com/2026/09/cheaper-car-t-therapy-drawing-global-cancer-patients-to-china/"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "At 25, Michael Walters had already endured unsuccessful lymphoma treatments in New Zealand. A Melbourne hospital quoted up to US$600,000 for CAR-T therapy. He paid less than half that in Shanghai and learned on August 18 that his cancer was in complete remission. CAR-T, or chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy, re-engineers a patient’s own immune […] The post Cheaper CAR-T therapy drawing…",
  "key_points": [],
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  "coverage": {
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  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}