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I presume the incremental cost of treating each additional patient will be considerably smaller once the overheads of treating the first person are made.


Not necessarily. Even in regular use, this treatment will still involve killing off the patient's immune system, which will require days in hospital isolation. In addition, the culturing and screening of the immune cells to create a population that is primed to fight cancer is a labor-intensive process that has to be done for every patient.




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