[ConservativeMind]

A very available, cheap blood test can tell you or your doctor that your multiple myeloma immunotherapy is working, 15 days after starting it.

If it doesn’t look good at that point, immediately start a different therapy.

You may already get this blood test as part of your annual physical. There’s no need to wait a lot of precious months, now.

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[Herakles]

Thanks for your medical post I appreciate it

[icclearly]

You may already get this blood test as part of your annual physical. There’s no need to wait a lot of precious months, now.

It seems pretty clear from your comment you don't know what you're talking about.

CAR-T is not a front-line therapy. By the time you might possibly get to this therapy as a patient, you've had multiple failed attempts at other treatments. So, there is so much more than a simple blood test to make that determination. So much more!

In fact, it's a therapy that is incredibly complex and expensive (approximately $500,000) and is performed by only a few centers around the country. By the time a patient gets to CAR-T treatment, they've had multiple failed treatments and have been exposed to the best screening and analysis that modern medicine can offer.

A "simple/cheap blood test with an annual physical" for a rare disease and as a screening mechanism for the use of an incredibly complex treatment is just plain foolish beyond understanding.

Don't mislead us.