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Fatigue or Autoimmune Disease? Physician Talks Immunotherapy Side Effects

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Yvonne Saenger, MD

Yvonne Saenger, director of melanoma and immunotherapy at Columbia University Medical Center, discusses the side effects patients should look out for when they are on immunotherapy, and how to determine if they are experiencing normal therapy-induced fatigue or if they are suffering from a hormone reaction and should go see their medical team.

Yvonne Saenger, director of melanoma and immunotherapy at Columbia University Medical Center, discusses the side effects patients should look out for when they are on immunotherapy, and how to determine if they are experiencing normal therapy-induced fatigue or if they are suffering from a hormone reaction and should go see their medical team at the Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) 101 session.

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