Ruhr-University Bochum Jun 18 2025 Physicians from Bochum have used a cancer treatment method to treat severe autoimmune diseases. A team of physicians from Bochum are the first to successfully use CAR T-cell therapy to treat two patients with a rare autoimmune disease of the peripheral nervous system . This treatment modifies endogenous immune cells such that they can specifically target and eliminate B lymphocytes, which are here the origin of autoimmunity. This is the world's first clinical