Adverse Events and Side Effects of Chimeric Antigen Receptor (CAR) T Cell Therapy in Patients with Hematologic Malignancies

Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell therapy is rapidly being established as a new cancer treatment modality especially for the treatment of hematologic malignancies. Alongside being capable of inducing durable responses in such malignancies, CAR T cell therapy has always been accompanied by exclusive toxicities such as cytokine release syndrome (CRS), that can range from mild to life-threatening. These toxicities require intensive monitoring and fast and executive management procedures to reduce the level of damages or the rate of mortality in CAR T cell therapy recipients. In this review, we tend to introduced some of the most common CAR T cell therapy-related toxicities and their clinical demonstrations. Furthermore, we also introduce some of the management procedures commonly considered in this regard.