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. 2021 Oct 20;6:367. doi: 10.1038/s41392-021-00764-4

Table 2.

Studies on the incidence of CRS of different grades and the classification criteria

Disease/Target antigen Costimulatory domain CRS classification criteria CRS percentage (severe rate) Reference
ALL
 CD19 4-1BB Consensus criteria and NCI CTCAE v4.03 70% (G3–5: 12%) Hay et al. (2017)34
 CD19 CD28 NCI consensus CRS grading system and NCI CTCAE v4.03 80% (G3-4: 16%) Curran et al. (2019)36
 CD19 CD28 Modified criteria of Lee and colleagues35 and NCI CTCAE v4.02 76% (G3-4: 28%) Lee et al. (2015)37
 CD19 4-1BB 77% (G3-4: 47%) Maude et al. (2018)38
 CD19 CD28 MSKCC CRS grading system and NCI CTCAE v4.03 85% (G3-4: 26%) Park et al. (2018)44
 CD19 4-1BB Modified criteria of Lee and colleagues and NCI CTCAE v4.03 66.7% (G3-4: 40%) Hu et al. (2017)45
 CD22 4-1BB 76% Fry et al. (2018)39
Lymphoma
 CD19 CD28 Modified criteria of Lee and colleagues and NCI CTCAE v4.03 92% (G3-4: 11%) Locke et al. (2019)40
 CD19 4-1BB University of Pennsylvania grading scale and NCI CTCAE v4.03 58% (G3-4: 22%) Schuster et al. (2019)8
Multiple myeloma
 BCMA 4-1BB Modified criteria of Lee and colleagues and NCI CTCAE v4.03 90% (G3-4: 7%) Zhao et al. (2018)195
 BCMA 4-1BB Modified criteria of Lee and colleagues and NCI CTCAE v4.03 76% (G3-4: 6%) Raje et al. (2019)42
 CD19 & BCMA 4-BB & 4-1BB Modified criteria of Lee and colleagues and NCI CTCAE v4.03 90% (G3-4: 5%) Yan et al. (2019)43
CLL
 CD19 4-1BB Consensus criteria and NCI CTCAE v4.03 70% (G3-5: 12%) Hay et al. (2017)34

CRS grading is performed using the classification proposed by Lee and his colleagues, while grading of organ toxicities is performed according to Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) Version 4.03