Cytokine Gene Therapy

Phase I Trial Evaluates IL-2 Gene Transfer in Cancer Patients

Published in Cancer Weekly, January 11th, 2000

A Phase I clinical study applying autologous immunological effector cells transfected with the interleukin-2 (IL-2) gene in patients with metastatic renal cancer, colorectal cancer and lymphoma shows that the procedure is safe and warrants further investigation.

"Natural killer-like T lymphocytes termed cytokine-induced killer (CIK) cells have been shown to eradicate established tumors in a severe combined immune deficient (SCID) mouse/human lymphoma model," wrote I.G.H. Schmidtwolf and colleagues from Humboldt University, Division Hematological Oncology, Germany. "Recently, we demonstrated that CIK cells transfected with cytokine genes possess an improved...

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Source: Cancer Weekly (2000-01-11)

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