Novel immunologic approaches to the management of malignant melanoma
作者:
Jeffrey Weber,
Ana Aparicio,
期刊:
Current Opinion in Oncology
(OVID Available online 2001)
卷期:
Volume 13,
issue 2
页码: 124-128
ISSN:1040-8746
年代: 2001
出版商: OVID
数据来源: OVID
摘要:
In the past decade, the discovery of tumor antigens recognized by T cells has revolutionized the tumor vaccine field. The appreciation that peptides are bound to and restricted by major histocompatibility class I and II molecules for immune recognition has encouraged a number of early-phase clinical trials of peptide vaccines. I summarize herein the rationale for and the results of a number of clinical trials of peptide vaccines for melanoma, suggesting that immune and clinical responses can be seen in those with metastatic and resected disease using a variety of surrogate assays. The challenge for the future is to correlate the results of immunologic assays with clinical benefit in patients with advanced cancer.
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