Boosting leukemia-specific T cell responses in patients following stem cell transplantation

Oncoimmunology. 2013 Nov 1;2(11):e26587. doi: 10.4161/onci.26587. Epub 2013 Oct 10.

Abstract

Whole tumor cell-based vaccines administered within the first 2 to 3 months after allogeneic stem cell transplantation stand out as a promising approach to enhance graft-vs.-leukemia responses. Herein, the implications of this finding for the development of strategies to improve the outcome of patients subjected to allogeneic stem cell transplantation are discussed.

Keywords: CLL; cancer vaccines; immune reconstitution; multiepitope vaccines; neoantigens; stem cell transplantation; whole tumor-cell vaccination.