Treatment of metastatic melanoma with autologous CD4+ T cells against NY-ESO-1.

Hunder, Naomi N; Wallen, Herschel; Cao, Jianhong; Hendricks, Deborah W; Reilly, John Z; Rodmyre, Rebecca; Jungbluth, Achim; Gnjatic, Sacha et al. · N Engl J Med · 2008

case_report · Level V

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Abstract

We developed an in vitro method for isolating and expanding autologous CD4+ T-cell clones with specificity for the melanoma-associated antigen NY-ESO-1. We infused these cells into a patient with refractory metastatic melanoma who had not undergone any previous conditioning or cytokine treatment. We show that the transferred CD4+ T cells mediated a durable clinical remission and led to endogenous responses against melanoma antigens other than NY-ESO-1.

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