A Study to Evaluate the Safety and Efficacy of Ex Vivo Expanded Autologous Immune Killer Cells (IKC) in Stage IV Non-small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC) in Patients Who Failed Chemotherapy or Target Therapy

Summary

In this study, whole blood is drawn from the patient to be used to grow Immune Killer Cells (IKC). After proliferation, the IKC will be infused back into the patient to treat the cancer for a total of 24 weekly treatments. Possible adverse reaction can include slight fever and headache.

Timeline

Start

2017-12-05

Primary completion

2020-02-16

Completion

2020-02-16

Publications

• Tseng YH, Ho CL, Chian CF, Chiang CL, Chao HS, Tsai CL, Perng WC, Hsiao CF, Chuang MH, Ko KH, Cheng YC, Chen SJ, Wang CJ, Chen YM. Immune killer cells treatment for previously treated stage IV NSCLC patients. Sci Rep. 2024 Aug 21;14(1):19374. doi: 10.1038/s41598-024-69587-x.

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