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Higher doses of CAR T-cell therapy bring survival advantage for young patients with hard-to-treat B-ALL

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Young B-ALL patients who received doses of tisagenlecleucel, a chimeric antigen receptor T cell (CAR T) therapy, at the higher end of the FDA-approved dosing range had significantly better survival rates at one year compared with those who received lower doses within this range.

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