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Do you offer fertility preservation to patients prior to CAR-T therapy?

Do you limit it to post-pubertal patients? Do you offer it only if they will proceed with bone marrow transplantation after CAR-T?
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Pediatric Hematology/Oncology · Phoenix Childrens Medical Group
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There is no evidence yet about the impact of CAR-T itself on fertility, and this will be difficult to study in isolation in this population. Many CAR-T patients have been heavily pre-treated, so semen cryopreservation and oocyte harvesting may not be successful; but if feasible they should be attemp...

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