Table 3.
CAR-T cell therapy Challenges and strategies in breast cancer.
| Challenge | Strategies |
|---|---|
| Trafficking and infiltration | Designing better matched chemokine receptors on CAR-T cell. |
| Using oncolytic viruses to drive CAR-T cells traffic to tumor sites. | |
| Local administration. | |
| Constructing CARs to degrades extracellular matrix of tumor cells. | |
| Targeting the fibroblast activation protein. | |
| Tumor immunosuppressive microenvironment | Constructing T cells with TGFβ receptor. |
| Introducing cytokines (such as IL-2, IL-15, IL-12) neutralize immunosuppressive factors. | |
| Combing with checkpoint inhibitors. | |
| Tumor antigen heterogeneity | Developing multitarget CAR-T cells. |
| Toxicities | Developing multitarget CAR-T cells. |
| Developing affinity-tuned CAR-T cells. | |
| Developing inhibitory CAR-T cells. | |
| Introducing suicide genes to CAR-T cells. | |
| Using transient RNA expression of CARs. |