Archive · 7 Sep 2026
Command Hospital Chandimandir Administers First CAR-T Therapy
A hospital in Chandimandir has used CAR-T therapy for the first time.
The patient was a 16-year-old with a difficult blood cancer.
Doctors take some of a patient’s immune cells, called T-cells, and change them in a laboratory.
The changed cells are then returned to the patient.
These cells are designed to find and attack cancer cells.
The treatment can help some people whose blood cancer has returned or has not responded to other treatments.
The hospital is the second Command Hospital in India’s military healthcare system to provide this therapy.
Its haematology centre has also completed nine bone marrow transplants.
Command Hospital (Western Command), Chandimandir, administered its first CAR-T cell therapy to a 16-year-old patient.
The patient was suffering from relapsed, refractory B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.
CAR-T therapy modifies a patient’s T-cells so they can recognise and attack cancer cells.
Chandimandir is the first Command Hospital besides Army Hospital (R&R), Delhi, to offer the therapy.
The hospital’s haematology centre has also completed nine successful bone marrow transplants.
- Who
- The Department of Haematology at Command Hospital (Western Command), Chandimandir, treated a 16-year-old patient; Maj Gen Harkirat Singh is the hospital’s commandant.
- What
- The hospital administered its first CAR-T cell therapy for relapsed, refractory B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia.
- When
- Monday, September 7; the year is not specified in the report.
- Where
- Command Hospital (Western Command), Chandimandir, in the Chandigarh area.
- Why
- The therapy expands treatment options for relapsed or refractory blood cancers and strengthens specialised cancer-care capabilities within the armed forces’ healthcare system.
- Treatment
- CAR-T cell therapy
- Patient
- A 16-year-old with relapsed, refractory B-cell acute lymphoblastic leukaemia
- Hospital
- Command Hospital (Western Command), Chandimandir
- Distinction
- The first Command Hospital besides Army Hospital (R&R), Delhi, to offer CAR-T therapy
- Haematology centre
- Recently established
- Bone marrow transplants
- Nine successful procedures completed
- Treatment purpose
- An option for relapsed or refractory blood cancers