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Review

Chimeric antigen receptor T-cell therapy for the treatment of aggressive B-cell non-Hodgkin lymphomas: efficacy, toxicity, and comparative chimeric antigen receptor products

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Pages 1157-1164 | Received 09 May 2019, Accepted 12 Jul 2019, Published online: 25 Jul 2019

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