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92 Luptrawan et al.<br />

state (50). Patients who received both the intratumoral and the intradermal vaccines<br />

demonstrated reduction in the size of contrast-enhancing tumor on neuroimaging.<br />

This indicates that immature DCs injected intratumorally can potentially induce an<br />

antitumor immune response by their ability to capture and process TAAs in situ. For<br />

patients with surgically unresectable tumors not allowing for sufficient tumor<br />

specimen and/or recurrent gliomas, this may be a novel strategy.<br />

In a subsequent phase I/II clinical study, Yamanaka and colleagues,<br />

describe the clinical evaluation of malignant glioma patients vaccinated with<br />

DCs pulsed by an autologous tumor lysate (51). Twenty-four patients with<br />

malignant glioma (6 grade III malignant gliomas and 18 grade IV GBM) status<br />

postsurgical resection of tumor, external beam radiation therapy, and nitrosoureabased<br />

chemotherapy were enrolled in this study. These patients were monitored for<br />

recurrence via brain imaging (MRI or CT), and upon evidence of tumor recurrence,<br />

DC immunotherapy was initiated. Twelve patients received maintenance<br />

glucocorticoid therapy with prednisone 30 mg/day during DC therapy.<br />

DCs were injected intradermally close to a cervical lymph node, or<br />

intradermally and intratumorally via an Ommaya reservoir. Patients received DC<br />

pulsed with autologous tumor lysate every 3 weeks and continued with up to<br />

10 vaccinations depending on the clinical response. The mean number of<br />

administrations was 7.4 times intradermally and 4.6 times intratumorally. In the<br />

phase I section of the protocol, 17 patients received administration of immatured<br />

DCs pulsed by tumor lysate intradermally or both intradermally and intratumorally.<br />

Of the 17 patients, 2 had minor response, 6 had no change, and 9 had<br />

progressive disease. In the phase II section of the protocol, seven patients<br />

received administration of DCs matured with OK-432 pulsed by tumor lysate<br />

given intradermally and immatured DCs given intratumorally via an Ommaya<br />

reservoir. One out of the seven patients had partial response, one had minor<br />

response, four had no change, and one had progressive disease on MRI.<br />

Yamanaka and colleagues found that those 7 patients with GBM who received<br />

DCs matured with OK-432 had a significantly increased overall survival compared<br />

to the 11 patients who received DCs without OK-432 maturation. They<br />

also found that the GBM patients that received both intratumoral and intradermal<br />

DC vaccinations had a longer overall survival time than the patients who received<br />

intradermal administration alone. Survival of 18 DC-vaccinated patients was<br />

compared to 27 nonselected age-, gender-, and disease-matched controls that<br />

similarly underwent surgical resection, radiation, and nitrosourea-based chemotherapy.<br />

In the DC vaccinated group, results demonstrated a median overall survival<br />

time of 480 days with a percentage of overall survival 23.5% at 2 years<br />

versus 400 days in the control group with a percentage of overall survival 3.7% at<br />

2 years, conferring DC vaccination is associated with prolonged survival.<br />

In a phase I, dose-escalation study, Liau and colleagues enrolled 12 patients<br />

with GBM (7 newly diagnosed, 5 recurrent) and treated them with 1, 5, or<br />

10 million autologous DCs pulsed with acid-eluted autologous tumor peptides<br />

(52). The newly diagnosed patients underwent surgical resection followed by

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