Novel CAR T therapy is a ray of hope in the treatment of seriously ill AML patients

F Marofi, HS Rahman, ZMJ Al-Obaidi, AT Jalil… - Stem Cell Research & …, 2021 - Springer
Acute myeloid leukemia (AML) is a serious, life-threatening, and hardly curable
hematological malignancy that affects the myeloid cell progenies and challenges patients of …

Hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation

EA Copelan - New England Journal of Medicine, 2006 - Mass Medical Soc
Hematopoietic stem-cell transplantation, which is used to treat both malignant and
nonmalignant conditions, was first conceived more than 50 years ago, but problems …

Chronic myeloid leukaemia as a model of disease evolution in human cancer

JV Melo, DJ Barnes - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2007 - nature.com
Chronic myeloid leukaemia (CML) can be considered as a paradigm for neoplasias that
evolve through a multi-step process. CML is also one of the best examples of a disease that …

Molecules and mechanisms of the graft-versus-leukaemia effect

M Bleakley, SR Riddell - Nature Reviews Cancer, 2004 - nature.com
The ability of allogeneic bone-marrow cells and peripheral-blood stem cells to cure
leukaemia remains the most striking example of the ability of the human immune system to …

Evidence that specific T lymphocytes may participate in the elimination of chronic myelogenous leukemia

JJ Molldrem, PP Lee, C Wang, K Felio, HM Kantarjian… - Nature medicine, 2000 - nature.com
Although the immune system has long been implicated in the control of cancer, evidence for
specific and efficacious immune responses in human cancer has been lacking. In the case …

Haematopoietic cell transplantation as immunotherapy

FR Appelbaum - Nature, 2001 - nature.com
The graft-versus-tumour effect seen after allogeneic (genetically different) haematopoietic
cell transplantation for human malignancies represents the clearest example of the power of …

Chronic myelogenous leukemia: biology and therapy

S Faderl, M Talpaz, Z Estrov… - Annals of internal …, 1999 - acpjournals.org
Chronic myelogenous leukemia is a myeloproliferative disorder. It is characterized by a
biphasic or triphasic clinical course in which a benign chronic phase is followed by …

Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy in acute myeloid leukemia (AML)

S Hofmann, ML Schubert, L Wang, B He… - Journal of clinical …, 2019 - mdpi.com
Despite high response rates after initial chemotherapy in patients with acute myeloid
leukemia (AML), relapses occur frequently, resulting in a five-year-survival by< 30% of the …

Leukemia-associated antigen-specific T-cell responses following combined PR1 and WT1 peptide vaccination in patients with myeloid malignancies

K Rezvani, ASM Yong, S Mielke… - Blood, The Journal …, 2008 - ashpublications.org
We describe the safety and immunogenicity of a combined vaccine of 2 leukemia-associated
antigenic peptides, PR1 and WT1. Eight patients with myeloid malignancies received one …

Selective elimination of leukemic CD34+ progenitor cells by cytotoxic T lymphocytes specific for WT1

L Gao, I Bellantuono, A Elsässer… - Blood, The Journal …, 2000 - ashpublications.org
Hematologic malignancies such as acute and chronic myeloid leukemia are characterized
by the malignant transformation of immature CD34+ progenitor cells. Transformation is …