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Dendritic Cell Vaccines for Gliomas 97<br />

MALIGNANT GLIOMA RESPONSIVENESS TO<br />

CHEMOTHERAPY POST-DC VACCINATION<br />

The processes that can explain a reason why tumor recurs despite CTL induction<br />

by DC vaccination are immunoselection and immunoediting. These processes<br />

allow tumor cells to escape from CTLs by antigen loss (65,66). The potential<br />

synergies between immunotherapy and other therapies must therefore be<br />

investigated due to the clinical inconsistency of cancer vaccines and the effects<br />

of immunoselection on tumor evolution (67–69). Cedars-Sinai Medical Center<br />

(68) and Brigham and Women’s Hospital have conducted clinical trials to<br />

examine the synergy of vaccines with chemotherapy treatment (70). A retrospective<br />

analysis of clinical outcomes (survival and progression times) in<br />

25 vaccinated (13 with and 12 without subsequent chemotherapy) and 13 nonvaccinated<br />

de novo GBM patients receiving chemotherapy was performed.<br />

Patients who received post-vaccine chemotherapy demonstrated longer survival<br />

times and significantly longer times to tumor recurrence after chemotherapy<br />

relative to their own previous recurrence times, as well as to patients receiving<br />

vaccine or chemotherapy alone (Fig. 5). Two of these patients who underwent<br />

Figure 5 Overall survival in vaccine, chemotherapy, and vaccine + chemotherapy<br />

groups. Overall survival was defined as the time from first diagnosis of brain tumor (de<br />

novo GBM in all cases) to death due to tumor progression. Kaplan-Meier survival plots<br />

with censored values in open circles are shown for each group. Survival of the vaccine<br />

group was identical to that of chemotherapy group (P ¼ 0.7, log-rank test). Survival of<br />

vaccine + chemotherapy group was significantly greater relative to survival in the other<br />

two groups together (P ¼ 0.048, log-rank test), greater than survival in the chemotherapy<br />

group alone (P ¼ 0.028, log-rank test), and greater than survival in the vaccine group<br />

alone (P ¼ 0.048, log-rank test). Two of the three patients exhibiting objective tumor<br />

regression survived for >2 years (730 days) after diagnosis. (Reproduced from Wheeler<br />

CJ. et al. Clinical Cancer Research, 2004, 10(16): 5316–5326)

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