Ablative immunotherapy
A technology of immune response and immune system, applied in the field of therapeutic methods and compositions for treating tumors and pathogen-infected tissues, capable of solving problems such as inability to perceive threats/dangers of human cancer cells
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[0073] To examine the ability of allogeneic Th1 cells to stimulate systemic antitumor immunity in extensively metastatic disease, the following protocol was tested. Lethal doses of tumor cells (comprising BCL1 leukemia, 4T1 breast cancer, and 3LL lung cancer) were infused intravenously into mice on day 0, and tumor cells were injected intradermally to establish solid tumor masses. On day 7, mice were given 1 x 10 5 dose of allogeneic Th1 cells. On day 14, intratumoral injections: (a) normal saline; (b) normal saline + local cryoablated tumor; (c) 10 3 A dose of allogeneic Th1 cells; or (d) either allogeneic Th1 cells + localized cryoablated tumors to treat mice. Results for animals surviving on day 90 are shown below (n=10):
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[0076] To investigate whether the treatment of patients bearing solid tumors could benefit from the present invention, the above experimental design was repeated in animals that received only intradermal injections of tumor to establish a solid tumor mass. The results were similar to those obtained from those animals with metastatic disease.
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[0078] The combination of Th1 cells and cryotherapy resulted in a high cure rate. Cryotherapy kills tumors by necrosis, which is considered a more pathological type of cell death than death by apoptosis (the type of death caused by chemotherapy). It is thought that cryotherapy makes tumors more immunogenic and thus the combination of allogeneic Th1 cells with necrotic tumor death establishes a type of tumor vaccine leading to systemic antitumor immunity.
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