| CPC A61K 31/664 (2013.01) [A61K 31/675 (2013.01); A61K 31/7076 (2013.01); A61K 38/2013 (2013.01); A61K 38/2053 (2013.01); A61K 40/11 (2025.01); A61K 40/31 (2025.01); A61K 40/4211 (2025.01); A61K 45/06 (2013.01); A61P 35/02 (2018.01); A61K 2239/31 (2023.05); A61K 2239/38 (2023.05); A61K 2239/48 (2023.05)] | 12 Claims |
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1. A method of treating a patient having a tumor comprising (i) administering to the patient a single dose of cyclophosphamide at about 900 mg/m2/day and one or more doses of fludarabine at about 25 mg/m2/day; and (ii) administering to the patient a therapeutically effective amount of engineered chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cells, wherein the patient is determined to have an increase in the serum levels of IL-15 of at least 5-fold, IL-7 of at least 2-fold, and an increase in at least one of MCP-1 or CRP of at least 1.5 fold or IP-10 of at least 2-fold on the day of but prior to administration of the CAR-T cells, after the administration of cyclophosphamide and fludarabine; wherein the tumor is a leukemia and the engineered CAR-T cells are anti-CD19 CAR-T cells.
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