Abstract
Recently, it was recognized that an immune response develops along one of two major pathways. One leads to a destructive immune response (type 1), while the alternative leads to a nondestructive immune response (type 2). Our studies in animal models suggest that therapeutic vaccines induce a tumor-specific type 1 immune response while ineffective vaccines induce a type 2 response. These results have led us to examine the immune response in sentinel lymph nodes draining tumor vaccines of patients entered onto clinical trials for melanoma, breast and renal cell cancer.
Original language | English (US) |
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Pages (from-to) | S50-S53 |
Journal | European Journal of Nuclear Medicine |
Volume | 26 |
Issue number | SUPPL. |
DOIs | |
State | Published - 1999 |
Keywords
- Immune deviation
- Immunological monitoring
- Sentinel lymph nodes
- Tumor vaccine-draining lymph nodes
- Tumor vaccines
ASJC Scopus subject areas
- Radiology Nuclear Medicine and imaging