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SynthesisFrontiers in neurology2024

Incidence of immune effector cell-associated neurotoxicity among patients treated with CAR T-cell therapy for hematologic malignancies: systematic review and meta-analysis.

Min Woo Han, So Yeong Jeong, Chong Hyun Suh, Hyesun Park, Jeffrey P Guenette, Raymond Y Huang, Kyung Won Kim, Dok Hyun Yoon

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In one paragraph

Synthesis in Frontiers in neurology, 2024. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT07173166 (Randomized, Multicenter, Controlled Clinical Trial to Evaluate the Efficacy of Non-Pharmacological Interventions on Neurotoxicity Associated With CAR-T Therapy in Hematologic Patients), which is not on this map. Cited by 30 papers, 2 of them syntheses that pooled it.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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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.

NCT07173166 narecruitingnot on this mapstarted 2025, after this paper: background citation

Randomized, Multicenter, Controlled Clinical Trial to Evaluate the Efficacy of Non-Pharmacological Interventions on Neurotoxicity Associated With CAR-T Therapy in Hematologic Patients

TypeinterventionalSponsorInstituto de Investigacion Sanitaria INCLIVARan2025 to 2028Enrolled338ConditionsHematologic CancerArmsPhysical activity, Physical activity and nutrition
3 · Its place in the literature

Who cites it

30 citing papers in PubMed, 2 syntheses or guidelines pooled it.

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  10. Quality of Life in CAR-T Cell Therapy.Hematology reports · 2026
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  11. Emerging strategies to reduce the side effects of CAR-T cell therapy: focusing on gene editing and nanotechnology.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2026
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4 · The record

Corrections and comments

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

8 authors.

Min Woo Han *University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
So Yeong Jeong *Department of Radiology, Seoul National University Bundang Hospital, Seoul National University College of Medicine, Seongnam, Republic of Korea.
Chong Hyun SuhDepartment of Radiology and Research Institute of Radiology, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Hyesun ParkDepartment of Imaging, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.
Jeffrey P GuenetteDivision of Neuroradiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.
Raymond Y HuangDivision of Neuroradiology, Brigham and Women's Hospital, Dana-Farber Cancer Institute, Harvard Medical School, Boston, MA, United States.
Kyung Won KimDepartment of Radiology and Research Institute of Radiology, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
Dok Hyun YoonDepartment of Oncology, Asan Medical Center, University of Ulsan College of Medicine, Seoul, Republic of Korea.

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Objectives: We aim to assess the pooled incidence of immune effector cell-associated neurotoxicity syndrome (ICANS) in clinical trials and real-world studies of chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy for hematologic malignancy and compare the incidences among different agents. Methods: The PubMed, Embase, and Web of Science databases were searched for clinical trials and real-world studies. An inverse-variance weighting model was used to calculate pooled incidences and subgroup analyses. Multivariable analysis was conducted using binomial-normal modeling. Results: Seventy-five trials comprising 3,184 patients were included. The overall pooled incidence was 26.9% (95% CI, 21.7-32.7%) for all-grade and 10.5% (95% CI, 8.1-13.6%) for high-grade ICANS. In subgroup analysis, cohorts with anti-CD19 drugs had significantly higher ICANS incidences than cohorts with other agents. The multivariable analysis demonstrated higher odds of ICANS in anti-CD19 drug studies for high-grade (OR, 4.6) compared to anti-BCMA drug studies. In 12 real-world studies, studies used axicabtagene ciloleucel with CD28 (54.0% all-grade, 26.4% high-grade) exhibited significantly higher rates of all-grade and high-grade ICANS than studies using tisagenlecleucel with 4-1BB (17.2% all-grade, 6.1% high-grade). Conclusions: The overall incidences of ICANS with CAR T-cell therapy were 26.9% for all-grade and 10.5% for high-grade. Compared with other agents, patients with anti-CD19 drugs had a significantly increased risk of developing high-grade ICANS. Therefore, careful monitoring of ICANS should be considered for patients undergoing CAR T-cell therapy.

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CAR T-cellhematologic malignanciesimmune effector cell-associated neurotoxicity syndromeimmunotherapyneurotoxicity

Identifiers

PMID39474369
PMCPMC11518750

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