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How do you decide whether or not to give immunotherapy in patients with a history of an isolated, severe autoimmune event?

For instance, not chronic autoimmune diseases (eg RA, IBD) that may relapse/remit but events like Guillan Barre syndrome that is not likely to recur but was severe.
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Medical Oncology · Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Montefiore Medical Center
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This challenging but very relevant question brings up a very common general scenario that the patient/clinician team find themselves – between the rock and a hard place or as the Odyssean story of Scylla and Charybdis so colorfully illustrated with Scylla as a six-headed monster who lived on a rock ...

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