Exactly-- while a 95% success rate sounds really good-- and, um-- it IS-- is that truly of a cross-section of the allergic population?
Or do patients SELF-select out? Are they (subtly) steered out by clinicians who have a gut sense of who isn't a good risk?
Because those kinds of details really, really matter.
I mean, I understand that one may never truly get great answers to those questions-- because no patient (or parent) is going to stand for being in a control group that they can't opt out of-- or, for that matter, in an experimental one that they can't drop out of, either.
The drop-out rates in OIT studies were pretty interesting-- and the drop out rates were pretty significant in the experimental sides, every time. About 10-20%.
It seems to work really, really well -- for some people. And maybe not much if at all for other patients. Thing is-- who is who? How do physicians know? Do they know?