1. Systemic inflammatory status predict the outcome of k-RAS WT metastatic colorectal cancer patients receiving the thymidylate synthase poly-epitope-peptide anticancer vaccine.
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Correale P, Botta C, Staropoli N, Nardone V, Pastina P, Ulivieri C, Gandolfo C, Baldari TC, Lazzi S, Ciliberto D, Giannicola R, Fioravanti A, Giordano A, Zappavigna S, Caraglia M, Tassone P, Pirtoli L, Cusi MG, and Tagliaferri P
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TSPP is an anticancer poly-epitope peptide vaccine to thymidylate synthase, recently investigated in the multi-arm phase Ib TSPP/VAC1 trial. TSPP vaccination induced immune-biological effects and showed antitumor activity in metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC) patients and other malignancies. Progression-free and overall survival of 41 mCRC patients enrolled in the study correlated with baseline levels of CEA, immune-inflammatory markers (neutrophil/lymphocyte ratio, CRP, ESR, LDH, ENA), IL-4 and with post-treatment change in p-ANCA and CD56
dim CD16bright NKs ( p < 0.04). A subset of 19 patients with activating k-ras mutations showed a different immune-inflammatory response to TSPP as compared to patients with k-ras/wt and a worse outcome in term of PFS ( p = 0.048). In patients with k-ras/mut, inflammatory markers lost their predictive value and their survival directly correlated with the baseline levels of IL17/A over the median value ( p = 0.01). These results provide strong hints for the design of further clinical trials aimed to test TSPP vaccination in mCRC patients., Competing Interests: CONFLICTS OF INTEREST All the authors declare no conflicts of interest- Published
- 2018
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