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According to the National Cancer Institute (NCI), pancreatic cancer is relatively rare, with about 55,440 cases diagnosed annually, representing about 3.2 percent of new cancer cases. But each year, 44,330 Americans die from the disease, or about 7.3 percent of cancer deaths.

By many standards, and certainly by the way the media covers it and industry promotes it, immuno-oncology therapies using CAR-T are revolutionizing cancer treatments. But what if, as the saying goes, they threw a revolution and nobody came? Or more precisely, what if they threw a revolution and no one was willing to pay for it?