Bluebird’s Beta-Thalassemia Gene Therapy Faces US Panel Scrutiny On Hematologic Malignancy Risk
Executive Summary
Although there were no cases of hematological malignancy reported and no evidence of insertional oncogenesis in patients treated with beti-cel, FDA raises a theoretical risk due to delayed platelet engraftment, as well as malignancies seen in other lentiviral vector programs.
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