Review Article

Overview of Cellular Immunotherapy for Patients with Glioblastoma

Table 3

Active immunotherapy in high-grade gliomas using autologous tumour cells (ATC) .

ReferencesType of trialPatientsAntigen source Immune activationAdministrationImmune responseClinical responses

[46]Case report recurrent GBMirradiated ATC fibroblasts genetically modified to secrete IL 2SC (10 injections)ATR PBMC (lytic activity)No survival benefit at 4 months

[47]Pilot study newly diagnosed GBM after surgery and RTATC infected with NDV and inactivated with cisplatinumSC (4 to 5 injections)DTH (11/11-infected ATC)DTH (3/11-ATC) TI CD4/CD8 T cells (4/4)No survival benefitNo correlation between survival and DTH response

[48]Pilot study progressive HGG8 GBM, 4 AAATC IGF-IR/AS ODNSC (1 to 10 injections)TI lymphocytes (4/9)1 CR 2 PR 2 SD (GBM) 1 CR, 2 PR (AA)

[49]Case report recurrent GBMirradiated ATC fibroblasts genetically modified to secrete IL 4ID (2 injections in 5 sites)No ATR PBL (ELISPOT)1 PR-survival: 10 months

[50]Pilot study GBM after RTirradiated ATC infected with NDVID (5 to 8 injections)DTH (15/15) ATR PBMC (3/3) (IFN ELISPOT) TI CD8 cells (6/7)1 CR Median OS: 100 versus 49 weeks

[51]Pilot study 3 recurrent GBM 3 melanomairradiated ATC transduced with B7-2 and GM-CSFSC (3 injections)No ATR PBMC(CTL activity) (GBM)Longer free disease survival (3/6–1 GBM)

[52]Pilot study  GBM 8 newly diagnosed GBM 4 recurrent GBMformalin-fixed ATC tuberculin microparticles as adjuvantSC (3 injections in 5 sites)DTH (9/12)1 CR, 1 PR, 2 MR, 1 SD Median survival: 10.7 months 3 of 5 responders survival > 20 months

[53]Phase I recurrent HGG 4 GBM, 1 AOAirradiated ATCSC (4 injections )DTH (2/5)3 SD (GBM)

: Abbreviations used in this table: see Table 1 and Table 2; ATR: anti-tumour responses; ID: intradermal injection; IGF-IR/AS ODN: insulin-like growth factor type I receptor antisense oligodeoxynucleotide; MR: minor response; NDV: Newcastle-Disease-Virus; PBL: peripheral blood lymphocytes; SC: subcutaneous; TI: tumour infiltration.