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ReviewCancers2021

CART-Cell Therapy: Recent Advances and New Evidence in Multiple Myeloma.

Massimo Martino, Filippo Antonio Canale, Caterina Alati, Iolanda Donatella Vincelli, Tiziana Moscato, Gaetana Porto, Barbara Loteta, Virginia Naso, Massimiliano Mazza, Fabio Nicolini and 7 more

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Review in Cancers, 2021. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 26 papers.

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26citing papers in PubMed
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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

26 citing papers in PubMed.

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  3. The landscape and trajectory of global CRISPR therapeutics.Molecular therapy. Nucleic acids · 2026
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  4. Quality of Life in CAR-T Cell Therapy.Hematology reports · 2026
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  16. CRISPR/Cas9: A Powerful Strategy to Improve CAR-T Cell Persistence.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

17 authors.

Massimo MartinoStem Cell Transplant and Cellular Therapies Unit, Hemato-Oncology and Radiotherapy Department, Grande OspedaleMetropolitano "Bianchi-Melacrino-Morelli", 89124 Reggio Calabria, RC, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-3987-419X
Filippo Antonio CanaleStem Cell Transplant and Cellular Therapies Unit, Hemato-Oncology and Radiotherapy Department, Grande OspedaleMetropolitano "Bianchi-Melacrino-Morelli", 89124 Reggio Calabria, RC, Italy.
Caterina AlatiHematology Unit, Hemato-Oncology and Radiotherapy Department, Grande Ospedale Metropolitano "Bianchi-Melacrino-Morelli", 89124 Reggio Calabria, RC, Italy.
Iolanda Donatella VincelliHematology Unit, Hemato-Oncology and Radiotherapy Department, Grande Ospedale Metropolitano "Bianchi-Melacrino-Morelli", 89124 Reggio Calabria, RC, Italy.
Tiziana MoscatoStem Cell Transplant and Cellular Therapies Unit, Hemato-Oncology and Radiotherapy Department, Grande OspedaleMetropolitano "Bianchi-Melacrino-Morelli", 89124 Reggio Calabria, RC, Italy.
Gaetana PortoStem Cell Transplant and Cellular Therapies Unit, Hemato-Oncology and Radiotherapy Department, Grande OspedaleMetropolitano "Bianchi-Melacrino-Morelli", 89124 Reggio Calabria, RC, Italy.
Barbara LotetaStem Cell Transplant and Cellular Therapies Unit, Hemato-Oncology and Radiotherapy Department, Grande OspedaleMetropolitano "Bianchi-Melacrino-Morelli", 89124 Reggio Calabria, RC, Italy.
Virginia NasoStem Cell Transplant and Cellular Therapies Unit, Hemato-Oncology and Radiotherapy Department, Grande OspedaleMetropolitano "Bianchi-Melacrino-Morelli", 89124 Reggio Calabria, RC, Italy.
Massimiliano MazzaImmunotherapy, Cell Therapy and Biobank (ITCB), IRCCS Istituto Romagnolo per lo Studio dei Tumori (IRST) "Dino Amadori", 47014 Meldola, FC, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-9053-5743
Fabio NicoliniImmunotherapy, Cell Therapy and Biobank (ITCB), IRCCS Istituto Romagnolo per lo Studio dei Tumori (IRST) "Dino Amadori", 47014 Meldola, FC, Italy.
Andrea Ghelli Luserna di RoràBiosciences Laboratory, IRCCS Istituto Romagnolo per lo Studio dei Tumori (IRST) "Dino Amadori", 47014 Meldola, FC, Italy.
Giorgia SimonettiBiosciences Laboratory, IRCCS Istituto Romagnolo per lo Studio dei Tumori (IRST) "Dino Amadori", 47014 Meldola, FC, Italy.ORCID 0000-0001-6954-969X
Sonia RonconiHematology Unit, IRCCS Istituto Romagnolo per lo Studio dei Tumori (IRST) "Dino Amadori", 47014 Meldola, FC, Italy.
Michela CeccoliniHematology Unit, IRCCS Istituto Romagnolo per lo Studio dei Tumori (IRST) "Dino Amadori", 47014 Meldola, FC, Italy.
Gerardo MusuracaHematology Unit, IRCCS Istituto Romagnolo per lo Studio dei Tumori (IRST) "Dino Amadori", 47014 Meldola, FC, Italy.
Giovanni MartinelliHematology Unit, IRCCS Istituto Romagnolo per lo Studio dei Tumori (IRST) "Dino Amadori", 47014 Meldola, FC, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-1025-4210
Claudio CerchioneHematology Unit, IRCCS Istituto Romagnolo per lo Studio dei Tumori (IRST) "Dino Amadori", 47014 Meldola, FC, Italy.ORCID 0000-0002-9104-5436

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Despite the improvement in survival outcomes, multiple myeloma (MM) remains an incurable disease. Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy targeting B-cell maturation antigen (BCMA) represents a new strategy for the treatment of relapsed/refractory MM (R/R). In this paper, we describe several recent advances in the field of anti-BCMA CAR T-cell therapy and MM. Currently, available data on anti-BCMA CART-cell therapy has demonstrated efficacy and manageable toxicity in heavily pretreated R/R MM patients. Despite this, the main issues remain to be addressed. First of all, a significant proportion of patients eventually relapse. The potential strategy to prevent relapse includes sequential or combined infusion with CAR T-cells against targets other than BCMA, CAR T-cells with novel dual-targeting vector design, and BCMA expression upregulation. Another dark side of CART therapy is safety. Cytokine release syndrome (CRS) andneurologic toxicity are well-described adverse effects. In the MM trials, most CRS events tended to be grade 1 or 2, with fewer patients experiencing grade 3 or higher. Another critical point is the extended timeline of the manufacturing process. Allo-CARs offers the potential for scalable manufacturing for on-demand treatment with shorter waiting days. Another issue is undoubtedly going to be access to this therapy. Currently, only a few academic centers can perform these procedures. Recognizing these issues, the excellent response with BCMA-targeted CAR T-cell therapy makes it a treatment strategy of great promise.

Indexed as

BCMACAR Tcytokine release syndromemultiple myelomaneurologic toxicityrefractory myelomarelapsed multiple myeloma

Identifiers

PMID34072068
PMCPMC8197914

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