# Efficacy and safety of CD19-directed CAR-T cell therapies in patients with relapsed/refractory aggressive B-cell lymphomas: Observations from the JULIET, ZUMA-1, and TRANSCEND trials

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## TL;DR

Review on CD19 in Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, in American journal of hematology (2021), one of the most cited Europe PMC records with CD19 in its title.

## Summary

Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR)-T cell therapies have improved the outcome for many patients with relapsed or refractory aggressive B-cell lymphomas. In 2017, axicabtagene ciloleucel and soon after tisagenlecleucel became the first approved CAR-T cell products for patients with high-grade B-cell lymphomas or diffuse large B-cell lymphoma (DLBCL) who are relapsed or refractory to ≥ 2 prior lines of therapy; lisocabtagene maraleucel was approved in 2021. Safety and efficacy outcomes from the pivotal trials of each CAR-T cell therapy have been reported. Despite addressing a common unmet need in the large B-cell lymphoma population and utilizing similar CAR technologies, there are differences between CAR-T cell products in manufacturing, pivotal clinical trial designs, and data reporting. Early reports of commercial use of axicabtagene ciloleucel and tisagenlecleucel provide the first opportunities to validate the impact of patient characteristics on the efficacy and safety of these CAR-T cell therapies in the real world. Going forward, caring for patients after CAR-T cell therapy will require strategies to monitor patients for sustained responses and potential long-term side effects. In this review, product attributes, protocol designs, and clinical outcomes of the key clinical trials are presented. We discuss recent data on patient characteristics, efficacy, and safety of patients treated with axicabtagene ciloleucel or tisagenlecleucel in the real world. Finally, we discuss postinfusion management and preview upcoming clinical trials of CAR-T cell therapies.

Indexed on Europe PMC as PubMed record 34310745 (DOI 10.1002/ajh.26301). Its title names CD19 and its text names Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma; PubMed types it as a review (Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't, review-article, Review). It was matched automatically to the idea "In vivo CAR-T as a vial on the shelf: a cost and access trial in lymphoma" and no figure has been checked by an editor.

## Fields

- Kind: Key paper
- Last checked: 2026-09-22
- Tags: europepmc-ingest
- Journal: American journal of hematology
- Year: 2021
- DOI: 10.1002/ajh.26301
- Authors: Westin JR, Kersten MJ, Salles G, et al.
- What it means: One of the most cited reviews Europe PMC returns for CD19 in Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma, so it is a natural first reading for anyone weighing the idea it is linked from. The record was linked automatically by title and abstract; read the abstract above and the paper itself before relying on any figure.
- Caveats: Matched by CD19 in the title and Diffuse large B-cell lymphoma in the title or abstract of the Europe PMC record; the summary reproduces the record's abstract and no figure has been verified against the full paper.; A review summarises other studies; the primary reports it cites are the evidence.

## Sources

- Am J Hematol 2021: https://doi.org/10.1002/ajh.26301
- PubMed: https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/34310745/
- Europe PMC: https://europepmc.org/article/MED/34310745

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