Immunotherapy of pediatric brain tumor patients should include an immunoprevention strategy: a medical hypothesis paper

Autor: Neil Hoa, Martin R. Jadus, Elizabeth W. Newcomb, Lisheng Ge, Lara Driggers, Jian-Gang Zhang
Rok vydání: 2009
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Zdroj: Driggers, Lara; Zhang, Jian-Gang; Newcomb, Elizabeth W.; Ge, Lisheng; Hoa, Neil; & Jadus, Martin R.(2010). Immunotherapy of pediatric brain tumor patients should include an immunoprevention strategy: a medical hypothesis paper. Journal of Neuro-Oncology, 97(2), pp 159-169. doi: 10.1007/s11060-009-0016-0. Retrieved from: http://www.escholarship.org/uc/item/1nr7x6kb
Journal of Neuro-Oncology
ISSN: 1573-7373
0167-594X
Popis: Adults diagnosed with Glioblastoma multiforme (GBM) are frequently faced with a 7% chance of surviving 2 years compared with pediatric patients with GBM who have a 26% survival rate. Our recent screen of possible glioma-associated antigen precursor protein (TAPP) profiles displayed from different types of pediatric brain tumors showed that pediatric patients contained a subset of the tumor antigens displayed by adult GBM patients. Adult GBM possess at least 27 tumor antigens that can potentially stimulate T cell immune responses, suggesting that these tumors are quite antigenic. In contrast, pediatric brain tumors only expressed nine tumor antigens with mRNA levels that were equivalent to those displayed by adult GBM. These tumor-associated antigens could be used as possible targets of therapeutic immunization for pediatric brain cancer patients. Children have developing immune systems that peak at puberty. An immune response mounted by these pediatric patients might account for their extended life spans, even though the pediatric brain tumors express far fewer total tumor-associated antigens. Here we present a hypothesis that pediatric brain tumor patients might be the best patients to show that immunotherapy can be used to successfully treat established cancers. We speculate that immunotherapy should include a panel of tumor antigens that might prevent the out-growth of more malignant tumor cells and thereby prevent the brain tumor relapse. Thus, pediatric brain tumor patients might provide an opportunity to prove the concept of immunoprevention.
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