For as long as CAR-T cell therapies have existed, their complex management and toxicity profiles have largely confined their use to large, academic medical centers as well as hospital systems with similar levels of infrastructural sophistication, and they have yet to really trickle down to community hematology/oncology settings. But new research looks in part at how that could be feasible.
Could CAR-Ts Roll Into The Community Setting?
Study Looks At Potential Feasibility Of Cell Therapy Beyond Academia
While CAR-Ts have yet to trickle down into community oncology, research focused on the CAR-T patient journey also surveyed community practices on CAR-T outside the traditional academic space.

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