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Patient Tragedy Inspires Program Focused on Immune-Related Toxicities
The advent of immunotherapy options to treat patients with cancer has brought with it a new wave of immuno-related toxicities. One institution, Massachusetts General Hospital, has taken steps to establish an immunotherapy toxicity service care team, inspired by a 65-year-old patient with metastatic melanoma that had spread to his lungs and brain.