Journal of Immunology Research / 2010 / Article / Tab 1 / Clinical Study
Unexpected High Response Rate to Traditional Therapy after Dendritic Cell-Based Vaccine in Advanced Melanoma: Update of Clinical Outcome and Subgroup Analysis Table 1 Patients who underwent subsequent therapies after vaccine.
Patient Adjuvant therapy DFS (months) Prior treatment (Prevaccine) Prevaccine LDH PostvaccineLDH Postvaccine treatment Postvaccine treatment LDH Best Response Sites of evaluable metastases 2 P.M. No 12 BioCT 366 627
CT 411 SD Lung, lymph nodes 4 G.D. HD-IFN 37 no 332 406 CT 310 PR Lymph nodes HD-IL-2 6 T.A. No 6 CT and RT
surgery for brain metastases 334 281 BioCT na PR Soft tissue 8 C.P. No 48 Locoregional CT (arm) 256 245 BioCT na PD Soft tissue 11 M.J. LD-IFN 108 CT 193 265 Surgery, Gamma Knife (brain) 384
Lung, kidney, skin, lymph nodes Lung surgery, BioCT 15 B.F No 57 Arm perfusion, BioCT, surgery 603
686§ Surgery 433
Lymph nodes, soft tissue 17 B.I No 9 BioCT 236 234 Surgery 254
Lung, adrenal gland 18 S.L HD-INF 36 CT (3 different lines) 374 311 CT, RT (brain), anti-CTLA-4 antibodies 708
PD Lymph nodes, soft tissue 22 M.C. LD-IFN 18 No 591§ 988§ Hepatic loco-reg CT, DTIC anti-CTLA4ab 493 PR Liver, soft tissue 23. R.G HD-IFN 48 Bone RT 299 313 BioCT,Gamma Knife (brain) na CR+ Lung, bone 24. B.R No 24 CT, LD-IFN 236 234 BioCT na PD Lung, soft tissue, lymph nodes
Adj: adjuvant; T: treatment; V: vaccine; HD-IFN: high-dose interferon; BioCT: biochemotherapy; CT: chemotherapy; RT: radiotherapy; LD: low dose; anti-CTLA4ab, anti-CTLA4 monoclonal antibody;
, elevated;
responses obtained alternating palliative surgery with vaccine.