John H. Sampson,Darell Bigner,Duane A. Mitchell,Amy Heimberger
申请号：
US14564132
公开号：
US20150118181A1
申请日:
2014.12.09
申请国别(地区):
US
年份:
2015
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. In fact, the temozolomide induced lymphopenia may actually be synergistic with a peptide vaccine.
