
News|Articles|September 25, 2026
5 Years of FDA Approvals in Lymphoma: Who They've Helped and What Comes Next
Author(s)Quincy Attobrah
Fact checked by: CURE staff
See how FDA-approved lymphoma treatments have changed over 5 years — what's new, who it's helped, and what's still to come.
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Five years ago, if standard chemotherapy and immunotherapy had stopped working for your lymphoma, CAR-T cell therapy was still brand new and available at only a handful of specialized centers. Today, an entirely different category of drug — the bispecific antibody — didn't exist for lymphoma at all in 2021, and now covers multiple lymphoma types with several FDA-approved drugs to pick from. Here's a look at exactly what the FDA has approved, year by year, and what it's actually meant for patients along the way, told partly through CURE's own reporting.
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