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How do patients and providers balance the risk of serious side effects with the benefits of DMT usage?

All medications have side effects. How are patients and providers balancing the impact of side effects with the goal of slowing MS? For example, anti-CD20, despite currently being the best high-efficacy DMT, comes with significant side-effect risks (e.g serious infections, colitis, reduced immunoglobulins, etc). When patients have serious side effects, are MS providers balancing the need for long-term MS management with the need for patient safety today?

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Medications

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