Journal of Immunology Research (Jan 2020)

CAR-T Cell Therapy in Cancer: Tribulations and Road Ahead

  • Qingyang Zhang,
  • Jieming Ping,
  • Zirui Huang,
  • Xiaoli Zhang,
  • Jingyi Zhou,
  • Gangyang Wang,
  • Shaoyang Liu,
  • Jianjun Ma

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1155/2020/1924379
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2020

Abstract

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Chimeric antigen receptor- (CAR-) T cell therapy is one of the most recent innovative immunotherapies and is rapidly evolving. Like other technologies, CAR-T cell therapy has undergone a long development process, and persistent explorations of the actions of the intracellular signaling domain and make several improvements have led to the superior efficacy when anti-CD19 CAR-T cell treatments in B cell cancers. At present, CAR-T cell therapy is developing rapidly, and many clinical trials have been established on a global scale, which has great commercial potential. This review mainly describes the toxicity of CAR-T cell therapy and the challenges of CAR-T cells in the treatment of solid tumors, and looks forward to future development and opportunities for immunotherapy and reviews major breakthroughs in CAR-T cell therapy.