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by purpleflame1257 920 days ago
This is quite possibly due to most of these patients already receiving DNA-damaging chemo before CAR-T therapy. It also represents only 20 cases out of tens of thousands of doses.
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myasthenia gravis patients already get chemo therapy to destroy their immune cells as part of the infusion protocols. That is a treatment and is not curative. If CAR-T works on MG, then it’s not the chemo that’s doing it.