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State of the Art in CAR-T Cell Therapy for Solid Tumors: Is There a Sweeter Future?

Beatriz Amorós-Pérez, Benigno Rivas-Pardo, Manuel Gómez Del Moral, José Luis Subiza, Eduardo Martínez-Naves

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Review in Cells, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 25 papers.

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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

25 citing papers in PubMed.

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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

5 authors.

Beatriz Amorós-PérezDepartment of Immunology, Ophthalmology and ORL, School of Medicine, Universidad Complutense of Madrid (UCM), 28040 Madrid, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-7296-6504
Benigno Rivas-PardoDepartment of Immunology, Ophthalmology and ORL, School of Medicine, Universidad Complutense of Madrid (UCM), 28040 Madrid, Spain.ORCID 0000-0003-2584-5125
Manuel Gómez Del MoralDepartment of Cellular Biology, School of Medicine, Universidad Complutense of Madrid (UCM), 28040 Madrid, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-0642-8142
José Luis SubizaInmunotek S.L., 28805 Madrid, Spain.ORCID 0000-0002-0134-5321
Eduardo Martínez-NavesDepartment of Immunology, Ophthalmology and ORL, School of Medicine, Universidad Complutense of Madrid (UCM), 28040 Madrid, Spain.ORCID 0000-0001-8136-9042

Funding

Comunidad de Madrid IND2019/BMD-17115Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación PID2020-117941RB-I00Ministerio de Ciencia e Innovación PID2022-1366620B-100
6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell therapy has proven to be a powerful treatment for hematological malignancies. The situation is very different in the case of solid tumors, for which no CAR-T-based therapy has yet been approved. There are many factors contributing to the absence of response in solid tumors to CAR-T cells, such as the immunosuppressive tumor microenvironment (TME), T cell exhaustion, or the lack of suitable antigen targets, which should have a stable and specific expression on tumor cells. Strategies being developed to improve CAR-T-based therapy for solid tumors include the use of new-generation CARs such as TRUCKs or bi-specific CARs, the combination of CAR therapy with chemo- or radiotherapy, the use of checkpoint inhibitors, and the use of oncolytic viruses. Furthermore, despite the scarcity of targets, a growing number of phase I/II clinical trials are exploring new solid-tumor-associated antigens. Most of these antigens are of a protein nature; however, there is a clear potential in identifying carbohydrate-type antigens associated with tumors, or carbohydrate and proteoglycan antigens that emerge because of aberrant glycosylations occurring in the context of tumor transformation.

Indexed as

Immunotherapy, AdoptiveNeoplasmsReceptors, Chimeric AntigenAnimalsAntigens, NeoplasmHumansT-LymphocytesTumor MicroenvironmentAntigens, NeoplasmReceptors, Chimeric AntigencancerCAR-T cellschimeric antigen receptorsimmunotherapysolid tumors

Identifiers

PMID38727261
PMCPMC11083689

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