Targeted Natural Killer Cell-Based Adoptive Immunotherapy for the Treatment of Patients with NSCLC after Radiochemotherapy : A Randomized Phase II Clinical Trial

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PURPOSE: Non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC) is a fatal disease with poor prognosis. A membrane-bound form of Hsp70 (mHsp70) which is selectively expressed on high-risk tumors serves as a target for mHsp70-targeting natural killer (NK) cells. Patients with advanced mHsp70-positive NSCLC may therefore benefit from a therapeutic intervention involving mHsp70-targeting NK cells. The randomized phase II clinical trial (EudraCT2008-002130-30) explores tolerability and efficacy of ex vivo-activated NK cells in patients with NSCLC after radiochemotherapy (RCT).

PATIENTS AND METHODS: Patients with unresectable, mHsp70-positive NSCLC (stage IIIa/b) received 4 cycles of autologous NK cells activated ex vivo with TKD/IL2 [interventional arm (INT)] after RCT (60-70 Gy, platinum-based chemotherapy) or RCT alone [control arm (CTRL)]. The primary objective was progression-free survival (PFS), and secondary objectives were the assessment of quality of life (QoL, QLQ-LC13), toxicity, and immunobiological responses.

RESULTS: The NK-cell therapy after RCT was well tolerated, and no differences in QoL parameters between the two study arms were detected. Estimated 1-year probabilities for PFS were 67% [95% confidence interval (CI), 19%-90%] for the INT arm and 33% (95% CI, 5%-68%) for the CTRL arm (P = 0.36, 1-sided log-rank test). Clinical responses in the INT group were associated with an increase in the prevalence of activated NK cells in their peripheral blood.

CONCLUSIONS: Ex vivo TKD/IL2-activated, autologous NK cells are well tolerated and deliver positive clinical responses in patients with advanced NSCLC after RCT.

Medienart:

E-Artikel

Erscheinungsjahr:

2020

Erschienen:

2020

Enthalten in:

Zur Gesamtaufnahme - volume:26

Enthalten in:

Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research - 26(2020), 20 vom: 15. Okt., Seite 5368-5379

Sprache:

Englisch

Beteiligte Personen:

Multhoff, Gabriele [VerfasserIn]
Seier, Sophie [VerfasserIn]
Stangl, Stefan [VerfasserIn]
Sievert, Wolfgang [VerfasserIn]
Shevtsov, Maxim [VerfasserIn]
Werner, Caroline [VerfasserIn]
Pockley, A Graham [VerfasserIn]
Blankenstein, Christiane [VerfasserIn]
Hildebrandt, Martin [VerfasserIn]
Offner, Robert [VerfasserIn]
Ahrens, Norbert [VerfasserIn]
Kokowski, Konrad [VerfasserIn]
Hautmann, Matthias [VerfasserIn]
Rödel, Claus [VerfasserIn]
Fietkau, Rainer [VerfasserIn]
Lubgan, Dorota [VerfasserIn]
Huber, Rudolf [VerfasserIn]
Hautmann, Hubert [VerfasserIn]
Duell, Thomas [VerfasserIn]
Molls, Michael [VerfasserIn]
Specht, Hanno [VerfasserIn]
Haller, Bernhard [VerfasserIn]
Devecka, Michal [VerfasserIn]
Sauter, Andreas [VerfasserIn]
Combs, Stephanie E [VerfasserIn]

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Themen:

49DFR088MY
Clinical Trial, Phase II
HSP70 Heat-Shock Proteins
Journal Article
Platinum
Randomized Controlled Trial
Research Support, Non-U.S. Gov't

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Date Completed 23.11.2021

Date Revised 23.11.2021

published: Print-Electronic

Citation Status MEDLINE

doi:

10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-20-1141

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PPN (Katalog-ID):

NLM314465642