China approves CARsgen's CAR-T treatment to treat stomach cancer

SHANGHAI - China's drug regulator said on Monday that it has approved a CARsgen Therapeutics treatment to stomach cancer.

The injection, also known as satri-cel, was the first CAR T-cell therapy for the treatment of solid tumors that advanced to the new drug application stage worldwide, according to CARsgen's website.

Chimeric antigen receptor T-cell or CAR-T treatments are a type of immunotherapy in which patients' immune cells are engineered to recognise and kill cancer cells.

(Reporting by Andrew Silver in Shanghai; Editing by Christopher Cushing and Edwina Gibbs)

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This story was originally published June 22, 2026 at 4:12 AM.