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Published on: September 1, 2018
Labeling T Cells to Track Immune Response to Immunotherapy in Glioblastoma
John Y Rhee1,2, Jack Y Ghannam3, Bryan D Choi3
1Department of Neuro-Oncology, Massachusetts General Hospital Cancer Center, Boston, MA 02114, USA.
Abstract:
While the advent of immunotherapy has revolutionized cancer treatment, its use in the treatment of glioblastoma (GBM) has been less successful. Most studies using immunotherapy in GBM have been negative and the reasons for this are still being studied. In clinical practice, interpreting response to immunotherapy has been challenging, particularly when trying to differentiate between treatment-related changes (i.e., pseudoprogression) or true tumor progression. T cell tagging is one promising technique to noninvasively monitor treatment efficacy by assessing the migration, expansion, and engagement of T cells and their ability to target tumor cells at the tumor site.

