Clinical and Immunological Effects in Patients with Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung-Cancer after Vaccination with Dendritic Cells Exposed to an Allogeneic Tumor Cell Lysate*

Lotte Engell-Noerregaard; Pia Kvistborg; Mai-Britt Zocca; Ayako W. Pedersen; Mogens Helweg Claesson; Anders Mellemgaard

doi:10.4236/wjv.2013.32011

Clinical and Immunological Effects in Patients with Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung-Cancer after Vaccination with Dendritic Cells Exposed to an Allogeneic Tumor Cell Lysate*

Lotte Engell-Noerregaard, Pia Kvistborg, Mai-Britt Zocca, Ayako W. Pedersen, Mogens Helweg Claesson, Anders Mellemgaard

Abstract

Background: We evaluated the clinical and immunological effects of dendritic cell (DC) vaccination of patients with NSCLC. Autologous DCs were pulsed with a MAGE containing allogeneic melanoma cell lysate (MelCancerVac®, Dandrit Biotech, Copenhagen, Denmark). Imiquimod cream, proleukin and celecoxib were used as adjuvants to the vaccines. The objective of the study was to evaluate specific T cell response in vitro by IFN EliSpot. Secondary objec- tives were overall survival, response and quality of life (QoL). Results: Twenty-two patients initiated the vaccination program consisting of ten vaccinations. Seven patients remained in stable disease (SD) three months after the first vac- cination. After ten vaccinations (six months), four patients still showed SD and continued vaccinations on a monthly basis. These four patients received a total of 12, 16, 26 and 35 vaccinations, respectively. Five patients showed an un- expectedly prolonged survival. The treatment was well tolerated and only minor adverse events were reported. Quality of life did not change during the study period. In four of the seven patients with SD, vaccine-specific T cells were de- tected by IFNγ EliSpot assays, whereas only one patient with progressive disease (PD) showed vaccine-specific re- sponses. Conclusion: This DC-based vaccine trial has indicated a correlation between vaccine-specific immunity and sustained SD. Furthermore, we observed an unexpectedly prolonged survival in some patients, which may indicate de-layed effect of DC vaccination after completion of the treatment. A prospective randomized phase-IIb or -III is needed to further evaluate the use of MelCancerVac® vaccine treatment in patients with progressive NSCLC.

Original language	English
Journal	World Journal of Vaccines
Volume	3
Issue number	2
Pages (from-to)	68-76
Number of pages	9
ISSN	2160-5815
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.4236/wjv.2013.32011
Publication status	Published - 2013

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Clinical and Immunological Effects in Patients with Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung-Cancer after Vaccination with Dendritic Cells Exposed to an Allogeneic Tumor Cell Lysate*. / Engell-Noerregaard, Lotte; Kvistborg, Pia; Zocca, Mai-Britt et al.

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Clinical and Immunological Effects in Patients with Advanced Non-Small Cell Lung-Cancer after Vaccination with Dendritic Cells Exposed to an Allogeneic Tumor Cell Lysate*

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