FDA has determined that a Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategy (REMS) is no longer necessary to ensure that the benefits of these CAR T-cell immunotherapies outweigh their risks and to minimize the burden on the healthcare delivery system of complying with the REMS.
REMS for currently approved BCMA- and CD19-directed autologous CAR T-cell immunotherapies eliminated
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