https://www.siliconvalley.com/2024/05/12/breakthrough-therapies-at-stanford-are-saving-lives-can-we-afford-them/

Harnessing the body’s own cells to fight disease, long a medical dream, is finally a reality.

Last month, Stanford became the first hospital in the nation to use a new $515,000 cell therapy to treat a patient with advanced melanoma. A related approach, costing $420,000 to $475,000, is offering hope to patients with lethal blood cancers.