Vaccination of Follicular Lymphomas With Tumor-Derived Immunoglobulin Idiotype

Summary

Patients undergo chemotherapy until remission is obtained, or disease has been stable for two cycles of chemotherapy, or progressive disease develops. Three to six months after completion of chemotherapy, patients who have achieved complete clinical remission or minimal disease status receive a series of 5 injections (given 1-2 months apart) of a vaccine consisting of 0.5 mg autologous tumor-derived immunoglobulin (Id) conjugated to KLH. The vaccine is administered with subcutaneous QS-21 as an immunological adjuvant....

Timeline

Start

1997-01-30

Primary completion

1999-07-31

Completion

2010-11-02

Publications

• Background Stevenson GT, Stevenson FK. Antibody to a molecularly-defined antigen confined to a tumour cell surface. Nature. 1975 Apr 24;254(5502):714-6. doi: 10.1038/254714a0. No abstract available.
• Background Sirisinha S, Eisen HN. Autoimmune-like antibodies to the ligand-binding sites of myeloma proteins. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 1971 Dec;68(12):3130-5. doi: 10.1073/pnas.68.12.3130.
• Background Kwak LW, Campbell MJ, Czerwinski DK, Hart S, Miller RA, Levy R. Induction of immune responses in patients with B-cell lymphoma against the surface-immunoglobulin idiotype expressed by their tumors. N Engl J Med. 1992 Oct 22;327(17):1209-15. doi: 10.1056/NEJM199210223271705.

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