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Nirav Niranjan Shah, MD, on DLBCL: Autologous Transplant vs CAR T-Cell Therapy

ASCO20 Virtual Scientific Program

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Nirav Niranjan Shah, MD, of the Medical College of Wisconsin, explores whether autologous transplantation, in patients with relapsed diffuse large B-cell lymphoma who achieve only a PET/CT-positive partial remission, is appropriate in the era of CAR T-cell therapy (Abstract 8000).



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