A Deep Dive On Early Time-to-Tocilizumab

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The latest episode of the ASTCT Talks features Rahul Banerjee, MD, on bone marrow transplant and CAR-T therapy.

On the latest episode of ASTCT Talks, Rahul Banerjee, MD, advanced fellow of Bone Marrow Transplant/CAR-T Therapy in the Department of Medicine at the University of California (UC) San Francisco, and Nina Shah, MD, associate professor in the Department of Medicine at UC San Francisco, discuss their paper “Early Time-to-Tocilizumab after B Cell Maturation Antigen-Directed Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cell Therapy in Myeloma.” The paper was co-authored by Shah and Banerjee, along with several colleagues, and was published in ASTCT’s Transplantation and Cellular Therapy Journal in March.

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Banerjee R, Marsal J, Huang CY, et al. Early Time-to-Tocilizumab after B Cell Maturation Antigen-Directed Chimeric Antigen Receptor T Cell Therapy in Myeloma. Transplant Cell Ther. 2021;27(6):477.e1-477.e7. doi:10.1016/j.jtct.2021.03.004

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