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ReviewCancer gene therapy2021

Recent updates on chimeric antigen receptor T cell therapy for hepatocellular carcinoma.

Jiaojiao Guo, Qi Tang

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Review in Cancer gene therapy, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 31 papers.

0numbers the graph read from it
0cells of the map it votes in
31citing papers in PubMed
3.5field-weighted citation impact, top 5% 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

31 citing papers in PubMed, 48 citations in OpenAlex.

  1. Hepatoblastoma.Nature reviews. Disease primers · 2025
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  9. CAR-T therapy for gastrointestinal cancers: current status, challenges, and future directions.Brazilian journal of medical and biological research = Revista brasileira de pesquisas medicas e biologica · 2024
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  12. Modeling Liver Development and Disease in a Dish.International journal of molecular sciences · 2023
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  16. CAR-T: What Is Next?Cancers · 2023
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  20. Insights into the tumor microenvironment of B cell lymphoma.Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR · 2022
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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

2 authors at 1 institution in 1 country.

Jiaojiao GuoNational Health Commission Key Laboratory of Antibody Techniques, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 211166, China.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0003-2110-8400
Qi TangNational Health Commission Key Laboratory of Antibody Techniques, Nanjing Medical University, Nanjing, 211166, China. qitang@njmu.edu.cn.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0002-5196-5932
National Health and Family Planning Commission · CN

Funding

National Natural Science Foundation of China (National Science Foundation of China) 81773268
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chimeric antigen receptor T cell (CAR-T) therapy is novel tumor immunotherapy that enables T cells to specifically recognize tumor-associated antigens through genetic engineering technology, thus exerting antitumor effects, and it has achieved encouraging outcomes in leukemia and lymphoma. Building on excellent progress, CAR-T therapy is also expected to work well in solid tumors. Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), the most common primary liver cancer, is usually diagnosed at an advanced stage. Current management options for HCC remain limited, and although previous studies have indicated the feasibility of CAR-T cells, ideal therapeutic effects have not yet been achieved. This is, in part, due to the heterogeneity of tumor antigens, high intratumor pressure, immunosuppressive microenvironment, CAR-T cell exhaustion, and serious adverse reactions, which compromise the therapeutic efficiency of CAR-T immunotherapy in HCC. To overcoming these challenges, many ongoing preclinical and clinical studies were conducted. This review summarizes current CAR-T therapy targets in the treatment of HCC, discusses current obstacles and possible solutions in the process, and describes potential strategies to improve the efficacy of CAR-T cells for patients with HCC.

Indexed as

Carcinoma, HepatocellularCell- and Tissue-Based TherapyHumansImmunotherapyLiver NeoplasmsReceptors, Chimeric AntigenReceptors, Chimeric Antigen

Identifiers

PMID33500535
OpenAlexW3122419575

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