Exploring Essential Issues for Improving Therapeutic Cancer Vaccine Trial Design.

AE37 vaccine Cancer vaccines biomarkers clinical design delayed clinical effect vaccine formulation

Journal

Cancers
ISSN: 2072-6694
Titre abrégé: Cancers (Basel)
Pays: Switzerland
ID NLM: 101526829

Informations de publication

Date de publication:
10 Oct 2020
Historique:
received: 11 09 2020
revised: 07 10 2020
accepted: 09 10 2020
entrez: 14 10 2020
pubmed: 15 10 2020
medline: 15 10 2020
Statut: epublish

Résumé

Therapeutic cancer vaccines have been at the forefront of cancer immunotherapy for more than 20 years, with promising results in phase I and-in some cases-phase II clinical trials, but with failures in large phase III studies. After dozens of clinical studies, only Dendreon's dendritic cell vaccine Sipuleucel-T has succeeded in receiving US FDA approval for the treatment of metastatic castrate-resistant prostate cancer. Although scientists working on cancer immunotherapy feel that this is an essential breakthrough for the field, they still expect that new vaccine regimens will yield better clinical benefits compared to the four months prolonged median overall survival (OS) Sipuleucel-T demonstrated in the IMPACT phase III clinical trial. Clinical development of cancer vaccines has been unsuccessful due to failures either in randomized phase II or-even worse-phase III trials. Thus, rigorous re-evaluation of these trials is urgently required in order to redefine aspects and optimize the benefits offered by therapeutic cancer vaccines. The scope of this review is to provide to the reader our thoughts on the key challenges in maximizing the therapeutic potentials of cancer vaccines, with a special focus on issues that touch upon clinical trial design.

Identifiants

pubmed: 33050520
pii: cancers12102908
doi: 10.3390/cancers12102908
pmc: PMC7600460
pii:
doi:

Types de publication

Journal Article Review

Langues

eng

Déclaration de conflit d'intérêts

The authors declare no conflict of interest.

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Auteurs

Constantin N Baxevanis (CN)

Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy Center, Saint Savas Cancer Hospital, 171 Alexandras avenue, 11522 Athens, Greece.

Sotirios P Fortis (SP)

Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy Center, Saint Savas Cancer Hospital, 171 Alexandras avenue, 11522 Athens, Greece.

Alexandros Ardavanis (A)

st Medical Oncology Clinic, Saint Savas Cancer Hospital, 171 Alexandras avenue, 11522 Athens, Greece.

Sonia A Perez (SA)

Cancer Immunology and Immunotherapy Center, Saint Savas Cancer Hospital, 171 Alexandras avenue, 11522 Athens, Greece.

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