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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2023 Jun 13.
Published in final edited form as: Cancer Cell. 2022 Apr 28;40(6):569–574. doi: 10.1016/j.ccell.2022.04.006

Table 1.

Clinical studies of regional delivery of CAR T Cells

Cancer Target (Costimulation) Delivery Sample Size NCT # Phase/Site
First Author, Publication, Year
Study Features/Notable Findings
Breast c-Met (4–1BB) Intratumoral 6 NCT01837602 Phase 0/University of Pennsylvania
CNS (glioblastoma, pediatric diffuse pontine glioma, diffuse midline glioma) B7-H3 Intracranial
Intraventricular
NCT04185038 Phase I/Seattle Children’s Hospital
EGFR806 Intracranial
Intraventricular
NCT03638167 Phase I/Seattle Children’s Hospital
EGFRvIII Intracerebral NCT03283631 Phase I/National Cancer Institute, Duke University
HER2 Intracranial
Intraventricular
3 NCT03500991 Phase I/Seattle Children’s Hospital
HER2 Intracranial NCT02442297 Phase I/Baylor College
HER2 Intraventricular NCT03696030 Phase I/National Cancer Institute
IL13Rα2 Intracranial 3 NCT00730613 Phase I/City of Hope
IL13Rα2 (4–1BB) Intracavitary
Intratumoral
Intraventricular
1 NCT02208362 Phase I/City of Hope
IL13Rα2 (CD28) Intratumoral 6 NCT01082926 Phase I/City of Hope
Cavitary (ovarian, fallopian tube, primary peritoneal, peritoneal mesothelioma, peritoneal metastases) CEA Intraperitoneal NCT03682744 Phase I/Rutgers, Roger Williams Medical Center
Folate receptor–alpha Intraperitoneal NCT03585764 Phase I/University of Pennsylvania
Mesothelin Intraperitoneal 11 NCT03608618 Phase I/National Cancer Institute
Muc16 (CD28/IL-12 secreting) Intraperitoneal
Intravenous
18 NCT02498912 Phase I/Memorial Sloan Kettering
Head and neck Squamous ErbB Intratumoral NCT01818323 Phase I/King’s College London
Guy’s and St Thomas
Liver metastases (from colorectal, pancreatic) CEA (CD28) Intrahepatic 6 NCT01373047 Phase I/Roger Williams Medical Center
CEA (CD28) Intrahepatic 8 NCT02416466 Phase I/Roger Williams Medical Center
CEA (CD28) Intrahepatic 1 NCT02850536 Phase I/Roger Williams Medical Center
Tag-72 Intrahepatic
Intravenous
6 Phase I/University of California, San Francisco, Stanford Mary Crowley
Mesothelin-expressing cancers
(lung adenocarcinoma, ovarian, fallopian tube, pleural and peritoneum mesothelioma)
Mesothelin Intrapleural
Intravenous
NCT03054298 Phase I/University of Pennsylvania
Thoracic (lung, pleural disease, mesothelioma) FAP Intrapleural 3 NCT01722149 Phase I/University of Zurich
Mesothelin (CD28) Intrapleural 41 NCT02414269 Phase I/II/Memorial Sloan Kettering
Mesothelin (1XX/PD1DNR) Intrapleural NCT04577326 Phase I/Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer

We searched PubMed and the National Clinical Trials website for clinical trials related to the following search terms: “CAR T cells regional delivery,” “CAR T cells locoregional delivery,” “intracerebral,” “intrahepatic,” “intrapleural,” “intratumoral,” and “intraventricular.”