Amy Cheese’s CAR T Miracle | Tucson News

Tucson News Today | 2 Min Now | The Daily News Now! · Aug 7, 2026 · 1m

A teacher from Colorado, Amy Cheese, was told she had only months to live after being diagnosed with lymphoma — with a tumor pressing on her heart. Desperate, she joined a clinical trial in Omaha for groundbreaking CAR T-cell therapy, where her own immune cells were reprogrammed into “cancer-eating lions” to hunt down the disease. The treatment worked — she went into complete remission and is now celebrating ten years cancer-free. Once a classroom hero, she’s now retired, spending time with her grandkids and calling Omaha home. Her story is a beacon of hope in a still-evolving field of…