On Target is a recurring feature from STAT that dives deep into the most promising drug targets in oncology. This column is adapted from the new STAT Report: Targeting cancer: the new frontier of immunotherapy and precision oncology.
Targeted immunotherapies like CAR-T have been remarkably successful in combating blood cancers like chronic lymphocytic leukemia. But malignancies that involve solid tumors have proved far more challenging for these new technologies. As yet, there has been no engineered cell therapy for solid tumors, which make up the overwhelming majority of cancers and include breast, lung, pancreatic, ovarian and prostate cancers.
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