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. 2025 Sep 18.
doi: 10.1038/s41409-025-02714-y. Online ahead of print.

ICANS and mortality after CAR-T therapy for NHL patients can be predicted using physical function measures of falls, balance and strength deficits, and use of an assistive device

Nisha M Nair  1 , Theresa E Hahn  2 , Hillary Jacobson  3 , Shernan Holtan  1 , Marco L Davila  1 , Philip L McCarthy  1 , Brian Christopher Betts  1 , Maureen Ross  1 , Andrew Ray  2 , Renee McKenzie  3 , Grant Schofield  1 , Ehsan Malek  1 , Megan M Herr  4
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ICANS and mortality after CAR-T therapy for NHL patients can be predicted using physical function measures of falls, balance and strength deficits, and use of an assistive device

Nisha M Nair et al. Bone Marrow Transplant. .
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Conflict of interest statement

Competing interests: NMN, TH, MMH, EM, AR and GS: No conflicts of interest to disclose. No company provided funding for this study. MD consultant to BMS and Kite/Gilead. SH research funding from Vitrac Therapeutics and Incyte, clinical trial adjudication to CSL Behring, and consults for Sanofi, Ossium, and MaaT Pharma. BCB research support from CTI BioPharma on the Ad Board for Incyte and has IP licensing for CD83 CAR T: CRISPR Tx 2021-2023. PLM consultant to BlueBird Biotech, BMS, Celegene, Fate Therapeutics, Janssen, Juno, Karyopharm, Magenta Therapeutics, Sanofi, and Takeda. Ethics approval and consent to participate: This observational study was approved by the Roswell Park Institutional Review Board and performed in accordance with the Declaration of Helsinki. A waiver of consent was obtained and approved by the Roswell Park Institutional Review Board.

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