red alert article for anyone on immunotherapy trials/treatments

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Olga
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red alert article for anyone on immunotherapy trials/treatments

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Deb shared with me this immune therapy blog (Dr. Breelyn Wilky twitted this from Science Times newsletter).
It is a very important review of the acute side effects caused by the overreacting/overstimulated immune system attacking the person's organs leading to acute diabetes and multi organ failure. With the number of the clinical trials and more important off label use of these drugs - tageted immune therapy - expanding rapidly and not enough funding from the companies producing these amazingly expensive drugs directed toward studying and documenting the acute and chronic side effects - the situation became very alarming and the patients have to be widely aware of the newly discovered side effects.
Pleas read it if you are on the clinical trial or taking the drug off label.

https://cdn.ampproject.org/c/s/mobile.n ... r.amp.html
or if link does not work
http://tinyurl.com/z3wxj5a

with any of the worrying side effects signs please discontinue the drug immediately, go to ER and ask them to contact the oncologist. Steroids are found to help in some cases.
The name of article "Immune System, Unleashed by Cancer Therapies, Can Attack Organs",
Olga
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