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ReviewNature reviews. Cancer2013

Gene-engineered T cells for cancer therapy.

Michael H Kershaw, Jennifer A Westwood, Phillip K Darcy

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Review in Nature reviews. Cancer, 2013. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06072989 (A Single Arm, Open Label Study to Evaluate the Safety, Tolerability, Pharmacokinetics, and Antitumor Activity of B4T2-001 CAR-T in Patients With Advanced Solid Tumors), which is not on this map. Cited by 277 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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2 · The registry

The trial behind it

Trials whose registry record cites this paper, or whose number appears in the abstract. A trial that started after this paper was published is citing it as background, not reporting it.

NCT06072989 phase1recruitingnot on this mapstarted 2023, after this paper: background citation

A Single Arm, Open Label Study to Evaluate the Safety, Tolerability, Pharmacokinetics, and Antitumor Activity of B4T2-001 CAR-T in Patients With Advanced Solid Tumors

TypeinterventionalSponsorShanghai East HospitalRan2023 to 2027Enrolled24ConditionsAdvanced Solid TumorArmsB4T2-001 autologous CAR-T
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

277 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  13. Engineering resilient CAR T cells for immunosuppressive environment.Molecular therapy : the journal of the American Society of Gene Therapy · 2025
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217 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.

4 · The record

Corrections and comments

PubMed lists nothing against this paper. Absence here is not a guarantee, only a check that was made.

5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

3 authors.

Michael H KershawCancer Immunology Research Program, Sir Peter MacCallum Department of Oncology, University of Melbourne, Parkville, Victoria 3010, Australia. michael.kershaw@ petermac.org
Jennifer A Westwood
Phillip K Darcy

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

T cells have the capacity to eradicate diseased cells, but tumours present considerable challenges that render T cells ineffectual. Cancer cells often make themselves almost 'invisible' to the immune system, and they sculpt a microenvironment that suppresses T cell activity, survival and migration. Genetic engineering of T cells can be used therapeutically to overcome these challenges. T cells can be taken from the blood of cancer patients and then modified with genes encoding receptors that recognize cancer-specific antigens. Additional genes can be used to enable resistance to immunosuppression, to extend survival and to facilitate the penetration of engineered T cells into tumours. Using genetic modification, highly active, self-propagating 'slayers' of cancer cells can be generated.

Indexed as

Genetic EngineeringImmunotherapy, AdoptiveAntigens, NeoplasmHumansLymphocyte ActivationT-LymphocytesAntigens, Neoplasm

Identifiers

PMID23880905

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