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Updated: Mar 14, 2026

A Precision Medicine Tool for Measurement and Monitoring of Hemoglobin S in Sickle Cell Disease Patients Receiving Transfusion Therapy
Do we need [more] clinical trials in Transfusion Medicine and Hemotherapy?
1EA3064, Faculty of Medicine of Saint-Etienne, University of Lyon, 42023 Saint-Etienne, France; Institut National de la Transfusion Sanguine, 6 rue Alexandre Cabanel, 75015 Paris, France.
Abstract:
This essay introduces a new series of papers to appear in Transfusion and Apheresis Sciences, to follow up clinical trials in the field of hemotherapy and transfusion medicine. This first paper stresses the weakness of such trials but also how difficult it is or may be to initiate clinical trials in this specialty.
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