• Annals of hematology · Apr 2019

    Review

    Chimeric antigen receptor T cell targeting B cell maturation antigen immunotherapy is promising for multiple myeloma.

    • Tiantian Ma, Jing Shi, and Huasheng Liu.
    • Department of Hematology, The First Affiliated Hospital of Xi'an Jiaotong University, Xi'an, 710061, China.
    • Ann. Hematol. 2019 Apr 1; 98 (4): 813-822.

    AbstractMultiple myeloma (MM) remains an incurable plasma cells malignancy because of its complex genetic heterogeneity and high relapse rate post immunotherapy. The encouraging results of chimeric antigen receptor T cell (CAR-T) targeting B cell maturation antigen (BCMA) immunotherapy clinical trials have shed light on curing MM in recent years. However, many therapeutic side effects limit the promotion and clinical use of this novel effective approach such as cytokine release syndrome, antigen escape, and neurotoxicity. We should make every effort to do further study about this immunotherapy to make it safer and effective. This review focusing on this topic clarifies the following contents: present status of MM treatment, effectiveness of CAR-T cells, features of BCMA, preclinical and clinical trials of BCMA CAR-T cells therapy, and existing problems and strategies. Hoping to provide a reference for the subsequent correlative clinical and research.

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