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Dendreon (formerly Activated Cell Therapy), in association with the Mayo Clinic, is developing the dendritic cell therapy APC-8015 (Provenge) for the potential treatment of hormone-refractory prostate cancer [284376]. Phase III trials were initiated in January 2000 [353557], and in July 2001 Dendreon anticipated that preliminary results would be available by the end of the year [417283], [427591]. As of September 2001, Dendreon was planning tofile a BLA in 2002 [421356]. Provenge involves the use of a proprietary recombinant antigen derived from prostatic acid phosphatase, found in approximately 95% of prostate cancers. The target antigen is combined with the patient's own dendritic cells and reinfused into the patient to stimulate an immune response [406383]. In November 1999, Dendreon received US-05976546, which covers the composition of the prostate tumor antigen engineered by Dendreon to help stimulate the immune system [347885]. In August 2000, Dendreon received US-06080409, entitled 'Immunostimulatory composition', which relates to the method by which Dendreon's vaccines stimulate the T-cell arm of the immune system tofight cancer [379085]. In April 2001, Dendreon was awarded US-06210662 covering the therapeutic composition of APC-8015 [406383].
Curr Opin Mol Ther 2002 Feb
PMID:Technology evaluation: APC-8015, Dendreon. 1188 98

Vaccine approaches for cancer differ from traditional vaccine approaches for infectious disease in tending to focus on clearing active disease rather than preventing disease. In this review, we provide a brief overview of different types of vaccines and adjuvants that have been investigated for the purpose of controlling cancer burdens in patients, some of which are approved for clinical use or in late-stage clinical trials, such as the personalized dendritic cell vaccine sipuleucel-T (Provenge) and the recombinant viral prostate cancer vaccine PSA-TRICOM (Prostvac-VF). Vaccines against human viruses implicated in the development and progression of certain cancers, such as human papillomavirus in cervical cancer, are not considered here. Cancers express "altered self" antigens that tend to induce weaker responses than the "foreign" antigens expressed by infectious agents. Thus, immune stimulants and adjuvant approaches have been explored widely. Vaccine types considered include autologous patient-derived immune cell vaccines, tumor antigen-expressing recombinant virus vaccines, peptide vaccines, DNA vaccines, and heterologous whole-cell vaccines derived from established human tumor cell lines. Opportunities to develop effective cancer vaccines may benefit from seminal recent advances in understanding how immunosuppressive barricades are erected by tumors to mediate immune escape. In particular, targeted ablation of these barricades with novel agents, such as the immune checkpoint drug ipilimumab (anti-CTLA-4) approved recently for clinical use, may offer significant leverage to vaccinologists seeking to control and prevent malignancy.
Methods Mol Biol 2016
PMID:Cancer Vaccines: A Brief Overview. 2707 65

Immunotherapy is considered as an effective method for cancer treatment owing to the induction of specific and long-lasting anti-cancer effects. Immunotherapeutic strategies have shown significant success in human malignancies, particularly in prostate cancer (PCa), a major global health issue regarding its high metastatic rates. In fact, the first cancer vaccine approved by FDA was Provenge, which has been successfully used for treatment of PCa. Despite the remarkable success of cancer immunotherapy in PCa, many of the developed immunotherapy methods show poor therapeutic outcomes. Immunosuppression in tumor microenvironment (TME) induced by non-functional T cells (CD4+ and CD8+), tolerogenic dendritic cells (DCs), and regulatory T cells, has been reported to be the main obstacle to the effectiveness of anti-tumor immune responses induced by an immunotherapy method. The present review particularly focuses on the latest findings of the immune checkpoints (ICPs), including CTLA-4, PD-1, PD-L1, LAG-3, OX40, B7-H3, 4-1BB, VISTA, TIM-3, and ICOS; these checkpoints are able to have immune modulatory effects on the TME of PCa. This paper further discusses different approaches in ICPs targeting therapy and summarizes the latest advances in the clinical application of ICP-targeted therapy as monotherapy or in combination with other cancer therapy modalities in PCa.
Cell Mol Life Sci 2020 Oct
PMID:Clinical application of immune checkpoints in targeted immunotherapy of prostate cancer. 3200 51