Adoptive transfer of a patient's own T cells, genetically modified ex vivo through the introduction of a gene encoding a chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) targeted to a tumor-associated antigen, is a novel approach to the treatment of ovarian cancer.
Several preclinical experiments and clinical trials have confirmed that adoptive cell immunotherapy using typical CAR-engineered T cells for OC is a promising treatment approach with striking clinical efficacy; moreover, the emerging CAR-Ts targeting various antigens also exert great potential.
This article mainly reviews various CAR-T cell treatments and their specific mechanisms in the field of ovarian cancer treatment to provide new ideas for the treatment of ovarian cancer.
To extend this notion to human ovarian cancer, we investigated the difference in expression levels of CAR in human ovarian cancer cell lines and whether their adenoviral sensitivities are enhanced by transient transfection of the CAR gene.
Expression levels of all CAR isoforms were elevated in ovarian carcinomas as compared with those of non-malignant controls. mRNA-expression correlated with protein levels.