Frontiers in Oncology (Feb 2023)

The immunotherapy advancement targeting malignant blastomas in early childhood

  • Bolun Zang,
  • Luyue Ding,
  • Linlin Liu,
  • Senthil Arun Kumar,
  • Wei Liu,
  • Chongchen Zhou,
  • Yongtao Duan

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3389/fonc.2023.1015115
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 13

Abstract

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Malignant blastomas develop relentlessly in all functional body organs inflicting severe health ailments in younger children. Malignant blastomas exhibit diverse clinical characteristics in compliance with their emergence in functional body organs. Surprisingly, neither of these preferred treatment types (surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy) showed promise or were effective in treating malignant blastomas among child patients. N ew, innovative immunotherapeutic procedures including monoclonal antibodies and chimeric-antigen based receptor (CAR) cell therapy, coupled with the clinical study of reliable therapeutic targets and immune regulatory pathways targeting malignant blastomas, have attracted the attention of clinicians recently.

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