Knoxville, TN (WOKI) There are only 30 hospitals in the country that offer a newly FDA-approved T-cell treatment for cancer, and the University of Tennessee Medical Center is one of them.

Through this new treatment process, UTMC staff are able to take the cells that your body naturally produces to fight cancer, reproduce more of the effective cells, then inject them back into a patient with the hopes of reducing or eliminating the tumor altogether.

This new treatment became FDA approved on February 16, and it has already brought multiple patients to UT hospital to seek this treatment out.

It is the only hospital in the state to offer the treatment, the next closest option being Louisville or Atlanta.