LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) – A new treatment at Covenant’s Joe Arrington Cancer Center is helping create a better future for patients who may have exhausted every other option. The medical director says the center is the first in West Texas to offer CAR T-cell therapy.
Every new treatment to the area has to have a first patient, and for Covenant that was Cindy Wagonseller. She’s worked in the medical field since she was 19, and even spent some time working at JACC. Then, about six years ago, she became the patient.
“Fall of 2018, I had been having abdominal pain that would, you know, bend me over while I was walking or I’d sit up at night. And so, I was missing some time at work with stomach pains,” she said…