Mumbai, Feb. 12 -- Tata Hospital and IIT Mumbai have invented a new technology to treat blood cancer, CAR-T, which is around 99 percent effective on children, Dr Shirish Arya of Tata Hospital said.

Researchers have claimed that this technology will be useful when all the existing methods fail and has proved to be very effective even in older people.

"We have completed two-phase trials so far, in which about 100 people were included. The results of which have been quite substantial," Dr Shirish Arya of Tata Hospital said.

Arya said that CAR-T cell technology is very effective in the treatment of advanced blood cell cancer. Being a targeted therapy, the desired results could be achieved, he added.

This technology will prove to be a pana...