title: Vaccination with melanoma lysate-pulsed dendritic cells, of patients with advanced colorectal carcinoma: report from a phase I study.
abstract: Immune therapy have shown new and exciting perspectives for cancer treatment. Aim of our study was to evaluate toxicity and possible adverse effects from vaccination of patients with advanced colorectal cancer with autologous dendritic cells (DC) pulsed with lysate from a newly developed melanoma cell line, DDM-1.13. Six patients were enrolled in the phase I trial. Autologous DCs were generated in vitro from peripheral blood monocytes in the presence of granulocyte-macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) and interleukin-4 (IL-4). DCs were pulsed with melanoma cell lysate from a cloned and selected melanoma cell line enriched in expression of MAGE-A antigens and deficient in expression of melanoma differentiation antigens: tyrosinase, MART-1 and gp100. Vaccinations were administered intradermally on the proximal thigh with a total of five given vaccines at 2 weeks intervals. Each vaccine contained 3-5 x 10(6) DCs. Five of the six patients received all five vaccines. The treatment was well tolerated in all patients without any observed vaccine-correlated adverse effects. Treatment with this DC-based cancer vaccine proved safe and non-toxic.
authors.affiliation: Department of Surgical Gastroenterology, University Hospital of Copenhagen, Denmark. stebur01@gentoftehosp.kbhamt.dk
authors.forename: S K
authors.initials: SK
authors.lastname: Burgdorf
authors.forename: A
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Fischer
authors.forename: M H
authors.initials: MH
authors.lastname: Claesson
authors.forename: A F
authors.initials: AF
authors.lastname: Kirkin
authors.forename: K N
authors.initials: KN
authors.lastname: Dzhandzhugazyan
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Rosenberg
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D000368:Aged; D000951:Antigens, Neoplasm / Q000276:immunology*; D019496:Cancer Vaccines / Q000276:immunology*; D015179:Colorectal Neoplasms / Q000276:immunology*; D003713:Dendritic Cells / Q000276:immunology*; D005434:Flow Cytometry; D016178:Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor / Q000276:immunology; D006801:Humans; D015847:Interleukin-4 / Q000276:immunology; D008545:Melanoma / Q000276:immunology*; D008562:Membrane Glycoproteins / Q000276:immunology; D008875:Middle Aged; D020133:Reverse Transcriptase Polymerase Chain Reaction; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000276:immunology*; D013601:T-Lymphocytes / Q000276:immunology; D014407:Tumor Cells, Cultured; D014611:Vaccination; D058951:gp100 Melanoma Antigen
chemical_list: D000951:Antigens, Neoplasm; D019496:Cancer Vaccines; D008562:Membrane Glycoproteins; C548637:PMEL protein, human; D058951:gp100 Melanoma Antigen; D015847:Interleukin-4; D016178:Granulocyte-Macrophage Colony-Stimulating Factor