Adoptive cell transfer: a clinical path to effective cancer immunotherapy

SA Rosenberg, NP Restifo, JC Yang… - Nature Reviews …, 2008 - nature.com
Adoptive cell therapy (ACT) using autologous tumour-infiltrating lymphocytes has emerged
as the most effective treatment for patients with metastatic melanoma and can mediate …

Graft-versus-leukemia effects of transplantation and donor lymphocytes

HJ Kolb - Blood, The Journal of the American Society of …, 2008 - ashpublications.org
Allogeneic transplantation of hematopoietic cells is an effective treatment of leukemia, even
in advanced stages. Allogeneic lymphocytes produce a strong graft-versus-leukemia (GVL) …

An inducible caspase 9 safety switch for T-cell therapy

KC Straathof, MA Pule, P Yotnda, G Dotti, EF Vanin… - Blood, 2005 - ashpublications.org
The efficacy of adoptive T-cell therapy as treatment for malignancies may be enhanced by
genetic modification of infused cells. However, oncogenic events due to vector/transgene …

The graft-versus-leukemia effect in AML

C Sweeney, P Vyas - Frontiers in oncology, 2019 - frontiersin.org
Allogeneic hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (allo-SCT) is the most established and
commonly used cellular immunotherapy in cancer care. It is the most potent anti-leukemic …

Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation in its 60s: a platform for cellular therapies

C Chabannon, J Kuball, A Bondanza, F Dazzi… - Science translational …, 2018 - science.org
Over the last 60 years, more than a million patients received hematopoietic cell
transplantation. Having incorporated multiple changes in clinical practices, it remains a …

Graft-versus-leukemia effect following hematopoietic stem cell transplantation for leukemia

AM Dickinson, J Norden, S Li, I Hromadnikova… - Frontiers in …, 2017 - frontiersin.org
The success of hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT) lies with the ability of the
engrafting immune system to remove residual leukemia cells via a graft-versus-leukemia …

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 …

Antibody responses to HY minor histocompatibility antigens correlate with chronic graft-versus-host disease and disease remission

DB Miklos, HT Kim, KH Miller, L Guo, E Zorn, SJ Lee… - Blood, 2005 - ashpublications.org
Minor histocompatibility antigens (mHAs) are known targets of donor T cells after allogeneic
hematopoietic stem cell transplantation (HSCT). In contrast, B-cell responses to mHAs have …

Graft-versus-leukemia reactions in allogeneic chimeras

HJ Kolb, C Schmid, AJ Barrett, DJ Schendel - Blood, 2004 - ashpublications.org
There is a strong graft-versus-leukemia (GVL) effect of allogeneic stem cell transplantation
(SCT) due to elimination of tumor cells by alloimmune effector lymphocytes. When leukemia …

Tolerance and cancer: mechanisms of tumor evasion and strategies for breaking tolerance

MY Mapara, M Sykes - Journal of clinical oncology, 2004 - ascopubs.org
The development of malignant disease might be seen as a failure of immune surveillance.
However, not all tumors are naturally immunogenic, and even among those that are …