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A similar phase II DRibble vaccine trial in breast cancer will start later in 2013. For optimal therapeutic vaccination against cancer concentrated antigen delivery with appropriate adjuvant is crucial. Synthetic vaccines allow rational vaccine design. Favoured cancer target antigens are involved in cancer initiation, progression and or me tastasis. Example: oncogenic MAPK 癌 proteins E6 and E7 of high risk HPV. Long peptide vaccines harboring both CD4 and CD8 T cell epitopes and requiring DC processing are efficient and were found capable of causing 50CR or PR in patients with high grade vulvar intraepithelial neoplasia, caused by HPV16, DNA prime long peptide boost may be considered. Processing route of SLP appears to differ from that of proteins.
br<> Fur ther improvements are seen by adding pegylated type I Interferon or TLR ligands but especially by conjugating TLR ligands to the long peptides. For maximally ef fective cancer treatment combination treatment such as long peptide vaccination MK-1775 955365-80-7 with chemotherapy or irradi ation and inhibitors of checkpoint control monoclonal antibodies, anti IL10, anti TGF B and other im munomodulators could be applied. Reduce toxicity of the monoclonal antibody treatments by local delivery in slow release formulation close to tumor draining lymph nodes is observed. Adoptive transfer of cancer specific T cells is best combined with optimal vaccination. Malignant Mesothelioma is a rapidly progres sive lethal tumor and the incidence is steadily increasing worldwide. An actual epidemic is expected over the next 10 15 years.
br<> No standard treatment significantly improves prognosis of MMS patients. Median OS is 12 months from buy MS-275 diagno sis. Survival in pretreated patients is even poorer. The second line therapy is undefined and enrollment in clin ical trial for fit patients is encouraged. Immune therapy can be considered a good option of treatment, consider ing evidence demonstrating that lymphocytic infiltration of pleural mesothelioma correlated with a better survival. Consistently, it has been observed that patients with high level of tumor infiltrating T cells have an overall survival much longer than the patients with a low rate. Along this line different immunotherapeutic agents have been tested in MMS patients but with disappointing results. Anti CTLA 4 mAb potentiate the anti tumor immune re sponse.
br<> The anti CTLA4 mAb ipilimumab significantly improves the survival of metastatic melanoma patients and it is currently in clinical development for other indications. The anti CTLA 4 mAb tremelimumab has been extensively tested in differ ent tumor types, and it is currently being investigated for different indications. Both ipilimumab and tremelimumab can induce durable stabilization and clinical response, The MESOT TREM 2008 Study is a second line, sin gle arm, phase II study with the anti CTLA 4 mAb tremelimumab in chemotherapy resistant advanced ma lignant mesothelioma, The aim of the study was to investigate safety, tolerability, clinical and immunologic activity of the drug in this cancer.