Opening The Door For Cell Therapy In Solid Tumors

The next frontier for cell therapy is solid tumors – and of the many attempts to move from liquid to solid tumors, tumor infiltrating lymphocytes and other CAR-T constructs are some of the most promising. 

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Several groups shared research at ASCO for new CAR-T designs in well-defined subgroups of patients with solid tumors that have failed previous conventional therapies. • Source: Shutterstock

The first wave of chimeric antigen receptor T-cell (CAR-T) therapies – the CD19-targeted Kymriah from Novartis and Yescarta from Gilead – are now being established in the blood cancers acute lymphoblastic leukemia and diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, respectively, and attention has turned towards different CAR-T constructs and other cell therapy approaches that may show promise in the much larger solid tumor setting.

Over 90% of cancers arise from solid organs, but so far the development of effective cell therapies for these tumors has eluded developers. Solving this problem will be essential for cell therapy to move away from its current niche to become a mainstream treatment modality

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