Engineered T cells for cancer treatment.

Anurathapan, Usanarat; Leen, Ann M; Brenner, Malcolm K; Vera, Juan F · Cytotherapy · 2014

review · Level V

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Abstract

Adoptively transferred T cells have the capacity to traffic to distant tumor sites, infiltrate fibrotic tissue and kill antigen-expressing tumor cells. Various groups have investigated different genetic engineering strategies designed to enhance tumor specificity, increase T cell potency, improve proliferation, persistence or migratory capacity and increase safety. This review focuses on recent developments in T cell engineering, discusses the clinical application of these engineered cell products and outlines future prospects for this therapeutic modality.

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