You are having a severe comprehension problem.
This study is for those on, or soon to take, CAR-T therapy. They are already known to have an issue requiring that.
Their doctors did not know that the ALC test could determine efficacy at 15 days, until now.
Get your head out so you can say, “icclearly,” icclearly.
Yes. There is a comprehension problem -- and it's you, my friend!
Let's take a close look at your rant/comments/misstatements about the article here.
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.
That's ludicrous. The treatment protocol involves the single infusion of engineered T cells back into the patient that takes place in a hospital setting and lasts for the time it takes to empty the bag that holds the infused cells.
You don't start another therapy! Get it. Please explain how you stop the infusion that lasts for minutes and then start some other from of treatment. When the infusion is complete, it's over. Done. There is no possible way to "stop and immediately start a different strategy." Your words -- not mine.
Further, CAR-T is usually followed by at least two previous treatments that have failed over months or years. You don't just stop and try another treatment -- 'cause at that point you may be out of options.
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.
There you go again! It's just another foolish statement by someone who knows not of what he speaks. Any lame-brain knows that there is a common set of blood panels taken at an annual physical. There is no way that the test described by MSK is performed by a local clinician. Don't believe me, ask your doc to run me "that there CAR-T test, will 'ya?"
Sure. I can see that conversation with my doc every year. "Now, doc, be sure you run that CAR-T test for me." HUH??
This is just more of your nonsense of misleading people on a subject that you are clueless about.