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Title
Trial watch : adoptive TCR-engineered T-cell immunotherapy for acute myeloid leukemia
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Simple Summary Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a type of blood cancer with an extremely grim prognosis. This is due to the fact that the majority of patients will relapse after frontline treatment. Overall survival of relapsed AML is very low, and treatment options are few. T lymphocytes harnessed with antitumor T-cell receptors (TCRs) can produce objective clinical responses in certain cancers, such as melanoma, but have not entered the main road for AML. In this review, we describe the current status of the field of TCR-T-cell therapies for AML. Despite the advent of novel therapies, acute myeloid leukemia (AML) remains associated with a grim prognosis. This is exemplified by 5-year overall survival rates not exceeding 30%. Even with frontline high-intensity chemotherapy regimens and allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation, the majority of patients with AML will relapse. For these patients, treatment options are few, and novel therapies are urgently needed. Adoptive T-cell therapies represent an attractive therapeutic avenue due to the intrinsic ability of T lymphocytes to recognize tumor cells with high specificity and efficiency. In particular, T-cell therapies focused on introducing T-cell receptors (TCRs) against tumor antigens have achieved objective clinical responses in solid tumors such as synovial sarcoma and melanoma. However, contrary to chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cells with groundbreaking results in B-cell malignancies, the use of TCR-T cells for hematological malignancies is still in its infancy. In this review, we provide an overview of the status and clinical advances in adoptive TCR-T-cell therapy for the treatment of AML.
Language
English
Source (journal)
Cancers
Publication
Basel : Mdpi , 2021
ISSN
2072-6694
DOI
10.3390/CANCERS13184519
Volume/pages
13 :18 (2021) , 20 p.
Article Reference
4519
ISI
000699368900001
Pubmed ID
34572745
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E-only publicatie
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Improved RNA-based engineering of T lymphocytes with leukemia-specific T cell receptors to redirect their effector functions: towards a clinically safe platform to evaluate efficacy and potential off-target toxicity.
Wilms' tumor (WTl) antigen-targeted dendritic cell vaccination to prevent relapse in patients with acute myeloid leukemia: a multicenter randomized phase II trial.
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Publications with a UAntwerp address
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Creation 05.10.2021
Last edited 02.10.2024
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