Title:Cancer Immunology and CAR-T Cells: A Turning Point Therapeutic Approach in Colorectal Carcinoma with Clinical Insight
Volume: 21
Issue: 3
Author(s): Suman K. Ray, Yamini Meshram and Sukhes Mukherjee*
Affiliation:
- Department of Biochemistry, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, Bhopal, Madhya Pradesh-462020,India
Keywords:
Cancerimmunotherapy, colorectal carcinoma, CAR-T technology, combination therapies, neoplastic
cells, transformation, tumor cells.
Abstract: Cancer immunotherapy endeavours in harnessing the delicate strength and
specificity of the immune system for therapy of different malignancies, including
colorectal carcinoma. The recent challenge for cancer immunotherapy is to practice and
develop molecular immunology tools to create tactics that efficiently and securely boost
antitumor reactions. After several attempts of deceptive outcomes, the wave has lastly
altered and immunotherapy has become a clinically confirmed treatment for several
cancers. Immunotherapeutic methods include the administration of antibodies or
modified proteins that either block cellular activity or co-stimulate cells through immune
control pathways, cancer vaccines, oncolytic bacteria, ex vivo activated adoptive transfer
of T cells and natural killer cells. Engineered T cells are used to produce a chimeric
antigen receptor (CAR) to treat different malignancies, including colorectal carcinoma in
a recent decade. Despite the considerable early clinical success, CAR-T therapies are
associated with some side effects and sometimes display minimal efficacy. It gives
special emphasis on the latest clinical evidence with CAR-T technology and also other
related immunotherapeutic methods with promising performance, and highlighted how
this therapy can affect the therapeutic outcome and next upsurge as a key clinical
aspect of colorectal carcinoma. In this review, we recapitulate the current developments
produced to improve the efficacy and specificity of CAR-T therapies in colon cancer.