The immunotherapy advancement targeting malignant blastomas in early childhood

Front Oncol. 2023 Feb 16:13:1015115. doi: 10.3389/fonc.2023.1015115. eCollection 2023.

Abstract

Malignant blastomas develop relentlessly in all functional body organs inflicting severe health ailments in younger children. Malignant blastomas exhibit diverse clinical characteristics in compliance with their emergence in functional body organs. Surprisingly, neither of these preferred treatment types (surgery, radiotherapy, and chemotherapy) showed promise or were effective in treating malignant blastomas among child patients. N ew, innovative immunotherapeutic procedures including monoclonal antibodies and chimeric-antigen based receptor (CAR) cell therapy, coupled with the clinical study of reliable therapeutic targets and immune regulatory pathways targeting malignant blastomas, have attracted the attention of clinicians recently.

Keywords: advanced immunotherapy; childhood; chimeric-antigen based receptor cell therapy; malignant blastomas; monoclonal antibodies.

Publication types

  • Systematic Review