Abstract:
:We present here the updated results after 9 years of the beginning of a trial on canine patients with malignant melanoma. This surgery adjuvant approach combined local suicide gene therapy with a subcutaneous vaccine composed by tumor cells extracts and xenogeneic cells producing human interleukin-2 and granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor. Toxicity was absent or minimal in all patients (0≤VCOG-CTCAE grade≤1). With respect to surgery-treated controls (ST), the complete surgery (CS) arm of this combined treatment (CT) significantly increased the fraction of local disease-free patients from 13 to 81% and distant metastases free from 32 to 84%. Even though less effective than the CS arm, the partial surgery (PS) arm of this CT was significantly better controlling the disease than only surgery (14% while PS-ST: 0%, P<0.01 and CS-ST: 5%, P<0.05). In addition, CT produced a significant sevenfold (CS) and threefold (PS) increase in overall survival. The CS-CT arm significantly improved both CS-ST metastasis-free- and melanoma overall survival from 99 days (respective ranges: 11-563 and 10-568) to >2848 days (81-2848 and 35-2848). Thus, more of 50% of our CT patients died of melanoma unrelated causes, transforming a lethal disease into a chronic one. Finally, surgery adjuvant CT delayed or prevented post-surgical recurrence and distant metastasis, significantly improved disease-free and overall survival maintaining the quality of life. Long-term safety and efficacy of this treatment are supported by the high number of CT patients (283) and extensive follow-up (>9 years). The successful clinical outcome encourages the further translation of similar approaches to human gene therapy trials.
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Cancer Gene Therjournal_title
Cancer gene therapyauthors
Finocchiaro LM,Glikin GCdoi
10.1038/cgt.2012.72subject
Has Abstractpub_date
2012-12-01 00:00:00pages
852-61issue
12eissn
0929-1903issn
1476-5500pii
cgt201272journal_volume
19pub_type
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journal_title:Cancer gene therapy
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journal_title:Cancer gene therapy
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journal_title:Cancer gene therapy
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journal_title:Cancer gene therapy
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journal_title:Cancer gene therapy
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journal_title:Cancer gene therapy
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
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journal_title:Cancer gene therapy
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journal_title:Cancer gene therapy
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journal_title:Cancer gene therapy
pub_type: 临床试验,杂志文章,多中心研究
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journal_title:Cancer gene therapy
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:
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abstract::T cells can be reprogrammed to redirect specificity to tumor-associated antigens (TAAs) through the enforced expression of chimeric antigen receptors (CARs). The prototypical CAR is a single-chain molecule that docks with TAA expressed on the cell surface and, in contrast to the T-cell receptor complex, recognizes tar...
journal_title:Cancer gene therapy
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
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更新日期:2015-03-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Cancer gene therapy
pub_type: 杂志文章,评审
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journal_title:Cancer gene therapy
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/sj.cgt.7700581
更新日期:2003-05-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Cancer gene therapy
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/sj.cgt.7700515
更新日期:2002-11-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Cancer gene therapy
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/sj.cgt.7700566
更新日期:2003-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Cancer gene therapy
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/s41417-020-00221-4
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journal_title:Cancer gene therapy
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/sj.cgt.7700877
更新日期:2006-01-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Cancer gene therapy
pub_type: 杂志文章
doi:10.1038/sj.cgt.7700161
更新日期:2000-04-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Cancer gene therapy
pub_type: 杂志文章
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更新日期:2005-06-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Cancer gene therapy
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更新日期:2004-09-01 00:00:00
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journal_title:Cancer gene therapy
pub_type: 杂志文章
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pub_type: 杂志文章
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journal_title:Cancer gene therapy
pub_type: 杂志文章
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journal_title:Cancer gene therapy
pub_type: 杂志文章
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journal_title:Cancer gene therapy
pub_type: 杂志文章
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journal_title:Cancer gene therapy
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