Study of Ipilimumab in the Immune System

Summary

Participants will be taking 3 mg/kg ipilimumab intravenously over a 90-minute period every 3 weeks for a total of four doses. Tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TILs)will be analyzed for functional characteristics.

Timeline

Start

2012-10

Primary completion

2017-10

Completion

2017-10

Publications

• Background Lenschow DJ, Walunas TL, Bluestone JA. CD28/B7 system of T cell costimulation. Annu Rev Immunol. 1996;14:233-58. doi: 10.1146/annurev.immunol.14.1.233.
• Background Schwartz RH. Costimulation of T lymphocytes: the role of CD28, CTLA-4, and B7/BB1 in interleukin-2 production and immunotherapy. Cell. 1992 Dec 24;71(7):1065-8. doi: 10.1016/s0092-8674(05)80055-8. No abstract available.
• Background Chen L, Ashe S, Brady WA, Hellstrom I, Hellstrom KE, Ledbetter JA, McGowan P, Linsley PS. Costimulation of antitumor immunity by the B7 counterreceptor for the T lymphocyte molecules CD28 and CTLA-4. Cell. 1992 Dec 24;71(7):1093-102. doi: 10.1016/s0092-8674(05)80059-5.
• Background Clemente CG, Mihm MC Jr, Bufalino R, Zurrida S, Collini P, Cascinelli N. Prognostic value of tumor infiltrating lymphocytes in the vertical growth phase of primary cutaneous melanoma. Cancer. 1996 Apr 1;77(7):1303-10. doi: 10.1002/(SICI)1097-0142(19960401)77:73.0.CO;2-5.
• Background Hamid, O., Chasalow, S. D., Tsuchihashi, Z., Alaparthy, S., Galbraith, S., and Berman, D. Association of baseline and on-study tumor biopsy markers with clinical activity in patients (pts) with advanced melanoma treated with ipilimumab. J Clin Oncol 27, 15s. 2009.
• Background Hodi FS, Butler M, Oble DA, Seiden MV, Haluska FG, Kruse A, Macrae S, Nelson M, Canning C, Lowy I, Korman A, Lautz D, Russell S, Jaklitsch MT, Ramaiya N, Chen TC, Neuberg D, Allison JP, Mihm MC, Dranoff G. Immunologic and clinical effects of antibody blockade of cytotoxic T lymphocyte-associated antigen 4 in previously vaccinated cancer patients. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2008 Feb 26;105(8):3005-10. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0712237105. Epub 2008 Feb 19.
• Background Hodi FS, Mihm MC, Soiffer RJ, Haluska FG, Butler M, Seiden MV, Davis T, Henry-Spires R, MacRae S, Willman A, Padera R, Jaklitsch MT, Shankar S, Chen TC, Korman A, Allison JP, Dranoff G. Biologic activity of cytotoxic T lymphocyte-associated antigen 4 antibody blockade in previously vaccinated metastatic melanoma and ovarian carcinoma patients. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2003 Apr 15;100(8):4712-7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0830997100. Epub 2003 Apr 7.

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