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REVIEW article

Front. Immunol.
Sec. Cancer Immunity and Immunotherapy
Volume 15 - 2024 | doi: 10.3389/fimmu.2024.1451977
This article is part of the Research Topic Immunotherapy: Up to Date Progress in Childhood and Hematological Malignancies View all 5 articles

Role of rapidly evolving immunotherapy in chronic active Epstein-Barr virus disease

Provisionally accepted
  • Department of Hematology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

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    Chronic active Epstein-Barr Virus disease is a kind of Epstein-Barr Virus associated T/NK cell lymphoproliferative disease. At present, there is still a lack of standard therapeutic regimen for its treatment, but its basic treatment principles include controlling inflammatory response, anti-tumor proliferation, and immune reconstitution. Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation is currently the only method that can cure this disease. In recent years, immunotherapy has developed rapidly and is widely used in the treatment of various hematological malignancies; various immunotherapy drugs, including PD-1 inhibitors, have also demonstrated their safety and efficacy in CAEBV, while immune cell therapies such as Epstein-Barr virus-specific T cells have also displayed their unique advantages in CAEBV.

    Keywords: Chronic active Epstein-Barr virus disease, Epstein-Barr virus, Immunotherapy, indicating that mogamulizumab may be an option for treating EBV-related T/NK-LPDs. However, There

    Received: 20 Jun 2024; Accepted: 12 Nov 2024.

    Copyright: © 2024 Yan, Zhu and Xiao. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY). The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) or licensor are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.

    * Correspondence:
    Xiaojian Zhu, Department of Hematology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China
    Yi Xiao, Department of Hematology, Tongji Hospital, Tongji Medical College, Huazhong University of Science and Technology, Wuhan, China

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