ReviewPharmacology & therapeutics2025
Combinational CAR T-cell therapy for solid tumors: Requisites, rationales, and trials.
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18 citing papers in PubMed.
- Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell therapy for solid tumors in pediatric patients: current breakthroughs, dilemmas, and strategies.Experimental hematology & oncology · 2026Review
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- Irreversible Electroporation Enhances Solid Tumor Infiltration and Selective Cancer Cell Lysis by CAR T Cells.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2026Article
- Advances in targeted and cellular therapies for relapsed/refractory mantle cell lymphoma: immunotherapeutic strategies and challenges.Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2026Review
- Enhancing persistence while managing cytokine release syndrome to embrace next-generation CAR-T cell therapy.Journal of translational medicine · 2026Review
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- Claudin18.2 positive gastric cancer: biology, tumor microenvironment, and therapeutic strategies.Journal of hematology & oncology · 2026Review
- Combining Small-Molecular Compounds With CAR T-Cell Therapy: Novel Strategies for Enhanced Cancer Immunotherapy.Cancer innovation · 2026Review
- Systemic Treatment for Hepatocellular Carcinoma Recurrence After Liver Transplantation.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2026Review
- Integrating CAR-T therapy with PD-1/PD-L1 blockade: Mechanisms, synergy, and optimized strategies in NSCLC.iScience · 2026Review
- Decoding signaling architectures: CAR versus TCR dynamics in solid tumor immunotherapy.Acta biochimica et biophysica Sinica · 2026Review
- Next-generation CAR-T cells design: leveraging tumor features for enhanced efficacy.Molecular cancer · 2025Review
- Avoiding the toll of lung injury while driving CAR T cells to the target tumor.Journal of thoracic disease · 2025Article
- Harnessing the potential of gene editing technology for CAR-T cell therapy of solid tumors.Inflammation and regeneration · 2025Review
- CAR Beyond αβ T Cells: Unleashing NK Cells, Macrophages, and γδ T Lymphocytes Against Solid Tumors.Vaccines · 2025Review
- Harnessing engineered extracellular vesicles for enhanced therapeutic efficacy: advancements in cancer immunotherapy.Journal of experimental & clinical cancer research : CR · 2025Review
- Immunotherapy in chronic lymphocytic leukemia: advances and challenges.Experimental hematology & oncology · 2025Review
- Antibody-drug conjugate combinations in cancer treatment: clinical efficacy and clinical study perspectives.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2025Review
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Abstract
Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T-cell therapy has achieved potent antitumor efficacy in hematological malignancies; however, because of limitations in CAR T-cell recruitment, infiltration, activation, and functional persistence in the tumor, its efficacy in solid tumors has been suboptimal. To overcome these challenges, combinational strategies that include chemotherapy, radiation therapy, or immune checkpoint inhibitor agent therapy with CAR T-cell therapy are being investigated. The established functional characteristics of the abovementioned therapies provide a rationale for the use of a combinational approach with CAR T cells. Chemotherapy reshapes the peritumoral stroma, decreases the immunosuppressive cell population, and promotes a proinflammatory milieu, all of which allow for increased recruitment, infiltration, and accumulation of CAR T cells. Radiation therapy promotes a chemokine gradient, which augments tumor infiltration by CAR T cells and further increases expression of tumor-associated antigens, allowing for increased activation of CAR T cells. Immune checkpoint inhibitor agent therapy inactivates T-cell exhaustion pathways-most notably, the PD1/PDL1 pathway-thereby improving the functional persistence of CAR T cells and promoting endogenous immunity. In this review, we discuss the requisites and rationales for combinational therapy, and we review 25 ongoing phase I and II clinical trials, of which 4 use chemotherapy, 3 use radiation therapy, 11 use immunotherapy, and 7 use another agent. While safety, efficacy, and improved outcomes are the primary goals of these ongoing studies, the knowledge gained from them will help pave the way for subsequent studies focused on optimizing combinational regimens and identifying predictive biomarkers.
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