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Review
. 2024 Nov 1;46(8):393-403.
doi: 10.1097/MPH.0000000000002956. Epub 2024 Oct 29.

Emerging CART Therapies for Pediatric Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Valeria Ceolin  1 , Manuela Spadea  1   2 , Vincenzo Apolito  1 , Francesco Saglio  1 , Franca Fagioli  1   2
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Review

Emerging CART Therapies for Pediatric Acute Myeloid Leukemia

Valeria Ceolin et al. J Pediatr Hematol Oncol. .

Abstract

The prognosis of children with acute myeloid leukemia (AML) has improved incrementally over the last decades. However, at relapse, overall survival (OS) ∼40% to 50% and is even lower for patients with chemorefractory disease. Effective and less-toxic therapies are urgently needed for these children. In the last years, immune-directed therapies such as chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cells were introduced, which showed outstanding clinical activity against B-cell malignancies. CART therapies are being developed for AML on the basis of the results obtained for other hematologic malignancies. The biggest challenge of CART therapy for AML is to identify a specific target antigen, since antigens expressed in AML cells are usually shared with healthy hematopoietic stem cells. An overview of prospects of CART in pediatric AML, focused on the common antigens targeted by CART in AML that have been tested or are currently under investigation, is provided in this manuscript.

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Conflict of interest statement

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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