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ReviewCancers2020

Chimeric Antigen Receptor Cell Therapy: Overcoming Obstacles to Battle Cancer.

Amy J Petty, Benjamin Heyman, Yiping Yang

Open access · goldAbstract readReview
In one paragraph

Review in Cancers, 2020. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 24 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
24citing papers in PubMed
1.9field-weighted citation impact, top 12% 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

24 citing papers in PubMed, 39 citations in OpenAlex.

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  3. Engineering adoptive cell therapy for solid tumors.Medical oncology (Northwood, London, England) · 2025
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  6. Practical immunomodulatory landscape of glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) therapy.Journal of the Egyptian National Cancer Institute · 2024
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  10. Current Targeted Therapy for Metastatic Colorectal Cancer.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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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 3 institutions in 1 country.

Amy J PettyDepartment of Pharmacology and Cancer Biology, Duke University, Durham, NC 27710, USA.
Benjamin HeymanDivision of Regenerative Medicine, Department of Medicine, UC San Diego, La Jolla, CA 92093, USA.
Yiping YangDivision of Hematology, The Ohio State University, Columbus, OH 43210, USA.
Duke University · USThe Ohio State University · USUniversity of California San Diego · US

Funding

MEDICAL SCIENTIST TRAINING PROGRAMT32GM007171 · NIGMS · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI KONTOS, CHRISTOPHER D · 1985 to 2021
$31.2M
Novel Strategies for Cancer Immunotherapy in Stem Cell TransplantR01CA136934 · NCI · OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY · PI YANG, YIPING · 2009 to 2018
$3.4M
T Memory Stem Cells in CancerR01CA193167 · NCI · OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY · PI YANG, YIPING · 2016 to 2020
$2.2M
Role of hedgehog signaling in tumor-associated macrophage polarizationF30CA213799 · NCI · DUKE UNIVERSITY · PI PETTY, AMY JIAYUE · 2017 to 2020
$149k
NCI NIH HHS F30 CA213799NCI NIH HHS R01 CA136934NCI NIH HHS R01 CA193167NIGMS NIH HHS T32 GM007171
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chimeric antigen receptors (CAR) are fusion proteins engineered from antigen recognition, signaling, and costimulatory domains that can be used to reprogram T cells to specifically target tumor cells expressing specific antigens. Current CAR-T cell technology utilizes the patient's own T cells to stably express CARs and has achieved exciting clinical success in the past few years. However, current CAR-T cell therapy still faces several challenges, including suboptimal persistence and potency, impaired trafficking to solid tumors, local immunosuppression within the tumor microenvironment and intrinsic toxicity associated with CAR-T cells. This review focuses on recent strategies to improve the clinical efficacy of CAR-T cell therapy and other exciting CAR approaches currently under investigation, including CAR natural killer (NK) and NKT cell therapies.

Indexed as

cancer immunotherapyCAR-NK cellsCAR-NKT cellsCAR-T cellsgenetic engineeringhematologic malignanciesnovel approachessolid tumors

Identifiers

PMID32244520
PMCPMC7226583
OpenAlexW3014975958

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Registered trials

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