Not exact matches
Better understanding
of how immune tolerance is lost and regained could inform efforts toward establishing stronger and more
durable phases
of remission in autoimmune disease and toward preventing cancer recurrence.
Of the 42 patients receiving the higher dosage, 36 percent experienced
durable reponses, including two who had complete
remissions and two more whose
remissions also were high quality (known as very good partial responses).
Updated results from a global clinical trial
of the CAR T - cell therapy for ALL reveal that children and young adults continued to show high rates
of durable, complete
remission.
Priority will be given to studies that evaluate combinations
of agents that induce immune deviation and / or regulation, produce effector cell depletion or exhaustion, to achieve
durable clinical
remission of disease.
The cytokines interleukin - 2 (IL - 2) and interferon - alpha cause kidney cancers to shrink in approximately 10 % -20 %
of patients, and provide
durable remissions in a subset
of these patients.
The other 5 vaccinated dogs that relapsed received single - agent prednisone as salvage therapy, one
of which achieved a
durable second
remission and did not relapse.
Fifteen
of 19 (79 %) vaccinated dogs in Group 2 eventually relapsed, but 4 dogs (21 %) did not and achieved a
durable (> 16 months) first
remission after chemotherapy and CD40 - B vaccination.
Three
of these four vaccinated dogs with a chemotherapy - induced
durable second
remission are still alive with no evidence
of lymphoma at 689, 1209, and 1216 days after the start
of their initial chemotherapy.
Ten
of the vaccinated dogs (52.6 %) have died due to lymphoma; six remain alive in
durable first or second
remission, and 3 were euthanized due to other causes.
In the unvaccinated Group 3, 39
of 46 dogs (84 %) that relapsed were treated with salvage chemotherapy and one dog received prednisone alone; however, only 3 (7.7 %)
of the dogs in Group 3 that received salvage therapy achieved a
durable second
remission, compared to 40 %
of vaccinated dogs that achieved a
durable second
remission to salvage therapy, a difference that was statistically significant (p = 0.025).
Ten
of the 15 vaccinated dogs (66.7 %) in Group 2 that relapsed were treated with cyclophosphamide, vincristine, and prednisone (COP) as salvage therapy and four
of these dogs (40 %) achieved
durable second clinical
remission (> 22 months) and did not relapse.