Safety and Efficacy of Intratumoral Injections of Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T Cells in Metastatic Breast Cancer.
Authors:Tchou J, Zhao Y, Levine BL, Zhang PJ, Davis MM, Melenhorst JJ, Kulikovskaya I, Brennan AL, Liu X, Lacey SF, Posey AD, Williams AD, So A, Conejo-Garcia JR, Plesa G, Young RM, McGettigan S, Campbell J, Pierce RH, Matro JM, DeMichele AM, Clark AS, Cooper LJ, Schuchter LM, Vonderheide RH, June CH
Journal:Cancer Immunol Res
PubMed ID:29109077
'Chimeric antigen receptors (CAR) are synthetic molecules that provide new specificities to T cells. Although successful in treatment of hematologic malignancies, CAR T cells are ineffective for solid tumors to date. We found that the cell-surface molecule c-Met was expressed in ~50% of breast tumors, prompting the construction of a ... More