RE: Me smells a troll12 Mar 2024 19:51
So you reckon 3m is enough to complete a whole trial (all phases) ?
If you think you’re getting the below at a discount then think again and, as I was once told - don’t be so thick.
An additional and under-reported opportunity to reduce the price of CAR T-cells lies in reducing the total cost of the delivery of cellular therapies to patients. Because of the complexity of delivering cellular therapies, medical centers enter elaborate, multistep negotiations with payers to pay for the entire package of care, typically in a bundle. Treating a patient with a CAR T-cell therapy generally requires (1) procedural and laboratory pretesting (eg, echocardiography and pulmonary function testing), (2) suitability review by physicians and social workers, (3) placement of an apheresis catheter (typically under a local anesthetic), (4) leukapheresis, (5) CAR T-cell production and return shipment to the medical center, (6) treatment with lymphodepleting chemotherapy, (7) treatment with CAR T-cell therapy, (8) response assessments (eg, in lymphoma with fluorodeoxyglucose-positron emission tomography scans, or in ALL with bone marrow biopsy plus flow cytometry), and (9) recovery from toxicities.