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ReviewFrontiers in immunology2018

CAR T Cell Therapy for Neuroblastoma.

Rebecca M Richards, Elena Sotillo, Robbie G Majzner

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Review in Frontiers in immunology, 2018. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 98 papers.

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0cells of the map it votes in
98citing papers in PubMed
5.6field-weighted citation impact, top 3% of its field
1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

Each row is one number read from the abstract, on the scale the paper reported it, with its interval. Left of the dashed line favours the treatment, right favours the comparator. Under each row is the sentence it came from. New to these charts? A ten-minute tutorial.

The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

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.

Neither the registry nor the abstract names a trial number. If this is a trial report, that itself is worth knowing.

3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

98 citing papers in PubMed, 152 citations in OpenAlex.

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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 at 1 institution in 1 country.

Rebecca M RichardsDepartment of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States.
Elena SotilloStanford Cancer Institute, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States.
Robbie G MajznerDepartment of Pediatrics, Stanford University School of Medicine, Stanford, CA, United States.
Stanford University · US

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Patients with high risk neuroblastoma have a poor prognosis and survivors are often left with debilitating long term sequelae from treatment. Even after integration of anti-GD2 monoclonal antibody therapy into standard, upftont protocols, 5-year overall survival rates are only about 50%. The success of anti-GD2 therapy has proven that immunotherapy can be effective in neuroblastoma. Adoptive transfer of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells has the potential to build on this success. In early phase clinical trials, CAR T cell therapy for neuroblastoma has proven safe and feasible, but significant barriers to efficacy remain. These include lack of T cell persistence and potency, difficulty in target identification, and an immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment. With recent advances in CAR T cell engineering, many of these issues are being addressed in the laboratory. In this review, we summarize the clinical trials that have been completed or are underway for CAR T cell therapy in neuroblastoma, discuss the conclusions and open questions derived from these trials, and consider potential strategies to improve CAR T cell therapy for patients with neuroblastoma.

Indexed as

Immunotherapy, AdoptiveAge FactorsAnimalsAntigens, NeoplasmClinical Trials as TopicGenetic EngineeringHumansNeuroblastomaReceptors, Antigen, T-CellReceptors, Chimeric AntigenT-Cell Antigen Receptor SpecificityT-LymphocytesT-Lymphocyte SubsetsTreatment OutcomeAntigens, NeoplasmReceptors, Antigen, T-CellReceptors, Chimeric Antigenadoptive T cell therapyCAR T cellsclinical trialsimmunotherapyneuroblastomapediatric oncology

Identifiers

PMID30459759
PMCPMC6232778
OpenAlexW2897377013

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