Stand Up To Cancer, St. Baldrick's Foundation hail green light for CAR T cell therapy

SU2C and St. Baldrick’s welcomed ODAC’s recommendation for FDA approval of the new CAR T therapy for a deadly form of leukemia, an approach whose development has also been supported by their Pediatric Dream Team investigating why some patients with B-cell ALL relapse after receiving the CD19 CAR T cell therapy, and developing standardized management of cytokine release syndrome (CRS), a potentially fatal side effect of the treatment.
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