ALKemy to enhance chimeric antigen receptor T cell immunotherapy for neuroblastoma.

Chimeric antigen receptor (CAR) T cell immunotherapy in solid cancer is severely limited by the absence of ideal targets. In this issue of Cancer Cell, Bergaggio et al. find that anaplastic lymphoma kinase (ALK) inhibitors can enhance the function of ALK-specific CAR T cells against neuroblastoma by increasing target density in cancer cells.