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ReviewNature reviews. Clinical oncology2025

Allogeneic chimeric antigen receptor cell therapies for cancer: progress made and remaining roadblocks.

Caroline Diorio, David T Teachey, Stephan A Grupp

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Review in Nature reviews. Clinical oncology, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 52 papers, 1 of them a synthesis that pooled it.

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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

52 citing papers in PubMed, 1 synthesis or guideline pooled it.

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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.

Caroline DiorioDivision of Oncology and Center for Childhood Cancer Research, Department of Paediatrics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
David T TeacheyDivision of Oncology and Center for Childhood Cancer Research, Department of Paediatrics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA.
Stephan A GruppDivision of Oncology and Center for Childhood Cancer Research, Department of Paediatrics, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, Philadelphia, PA, USA. GRUPP@chop.edu.ORCID http://orcid.org/0000-0001-8030-7595

Funding

No grant is acknowledged in the PubMed record.

6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells are revolutionizing cancer therapy, particularly for haematological malignancies, conferring durable and sometimes curative responses in patients with advanced-stage disease. The CAR T cell products currently approved for clinical use are all autologous and are often effective; however, in patients who are lymphopenic and/or heavily pretreated with chemotherapy, autologous T cells can be difficult to harvest in sufficient numbers or have functional impairments that might ultimately render them less efficacious. Moreover, autologous products take several weeks to produce, and each product can be used in only one patient. By contrast, allogeneic CAR T cells can be produced for many patients using T cells from a single healthy donor, can be optimized for safety and efficacy, can be instantly available for 'off-the-shelf' use and, therefore, might also be more cost-effective. Despite these potential advantages, the development of allogeneic CAR T cells has lagged behind that of autologous products, owing to the additional challenges such as avoiding graft-versus-host disease and host-mediated graft rejection. Over the past few years, the development of advanced genome-editing techniques has facilitated the generation of novel allogeneic CAR T cell products. Furthermore, CAR cell products derived from other cell types such as induced pluripotent stem cells and natural killer cells are being investigated for clinical use. In this Review, we discuss the potential of allogeneic CAR cell products to expand life-saving immunotherapy to a much broader population of patients in the coming years, the progress made to date and strategies to overcome remaining hurdles.

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Immunotherapy, AdoptiveNeoplasmsReceptors, Chimeric AntigenHumansT-LymphocytesTransplantation, HomologousReceptors, Chimeric Antigen

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