The Board of Regents of The University of Texas System;Duke University
发明人:
Sampson, John H.,Bigner, Darell D.,Mitchell, Duane,Heimberger, Amy
申请号：
AU2006312013
公开号：
AU2006312013B2
申请日:
2006.11.02
申请国别(地区):
AU
年份:
2012
代理人:
摘要：
The concurrent administration of chemotherapy and immunotherapy has been considered a contraindication because of the concern that the induced lymphopenia would ablate therapeutic efficacy of immunotherapy. Temozolomide has been shown to be an effective chemotherapeutic for patients with malignant gliomas and to deprive patients with glioblastoma (GBM) patients of this agent in order to treat with immunotherapy is controversial. Despite conventional dogma, we demonstrate that both chemotherapy and immunotherapy can be delivered concurrently without negating the effects of immunotherapy, hi fact, the temozolomide induced lymphopenia may actually be synergistic with a peptide vaccine.
