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Cellular therapies are showing tremendous promise for certain cancers previously thought to be incurable. While there are several types of cell therapies, they all remove and alter a patient’s cells, then infuse them back into the body to attack and kill cancer cells.

As part of our ongoing Conversations in Cancer video series, Diane Reedy-Lagunes, MD, a medical oncologist at Duke Health, talks to Chenyu Lin, MD, a hematologist-oncologist at Duke, who explains how they work and what the future may hold.

Duke Health experts discuss the use of cell therapy in fighting cancer.

The National Kidney Registry’s voucher program gives people in need of a kidney more ways to receive one and more incentive for people to donate. For Greensboro resident Kimberly Cable, who used the voucher program for her kidney transplant at Duke, it was lifesaving.

When blood pressure can't be controlled with lifestyle and medication, renal denervation may help. This minimally invasive catheterization procedure helps people with difficult-to-treat high blood pressure, also known as resistant hypertension, by quieting overactive nerves in the kidneys that play a critical role in regulating blood pressure.

“At Duke, we have been doing renal denervation for a long time,” said Duke Health interventional cardiologist Manesh Patel, MD. “We have the skill and the will to make people healthier in all the ways that it takes.”