Abstract:Brain tumors are the leading cause of cancer death in children and a significant cause of morbidity and mortality in adults. Conventional treatments are suboptimal, thus signifying the need for novel therapeutic strategies, such as immunotherapy. Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells represent a revolutionary class of immunotherapy, achieving considerable success in eliminating hematological cancers but generally failing to control solid tumors in part due to the lack of a suitably-expressed target antigen. … Show more
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