{"title":"Reflections on human tumor immunology.","authors":"E Klein","doi":"10.1007/BF02987773","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02987773","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77257,"journal":{"name":"Medical oncology and tumor pharmacotherapy","volume":"10 1-2","pages":"83-6"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/BF02987773","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18512625","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A O Cavdar, E Babacan, S Gözdasoglu, G Yavuz, E Unal, A Pamir
{"title":"T-lymphocyte sub-populations in orbito-ocular granulocytic sarcoma (OOGS) and acute myelocytic leukemia (AML): a preliminary study.","authors":"A O Cavdar, E Babacan, S Gözdasoglu, G Yavuz, E Unal, A Pamir","doi":"10.1007/BF02987777","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02987777","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The aetiology of GS remains obscure and a little is known about the immune competence of these patients. Interestingly, all children with OOGS were from low 'socio-economic status' and showed diminished delayed hypersensitivity reactions and reduced T cell counts (E-R) in our previous observation. We present herewith a preliminary data on evaluation of T cell sub-populations determined by monoclonal antibodies (CD3, CD4, CD8 and CD16 cells) in 10 patients with OOGS and AML prior to treatment. Quantitative immunoglobulin determinations of IgA, IgM, IgG were also made. The percentage of Pan T (CD3), CD4, CD8 cells were significantly lower than those in the controls (p < 0.01). The immunoglobulin levels were slightly elevated suggesting normal B cell functions. In conclusion, these preliminary findings suggest that cellular immune deficiency may be an underlying cause.</p>","PeriodicalId":77257,"journal":{"name":"Medical oncology and tumor pharmacotherapy","volume":"10 3","pages":"113-5"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/BF02987777","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19252832","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"The therapeutic use of the unconjugated monoclonal antibodies (MAb) 17-1A in combination with GM-CSF in the treatment of colorectal carcinoma (CRC).","authors":"P Ragnhammar, I Magnusson, G Masucci, H Mellstedt","doi":"10.1007/BF02987770","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02987770","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Unconjugated monoclonal antibodies (MAb) and granulocyte macrophage-colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF) may induce tumor regression in patients. Antibody-dependent cellular cytotoxicity (ADCC) is considered to be one of the effector functions of MAb. Human peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) preincubated with GM-CSF and used as effector cells in an 18h ADCC assay with SW948 (human colorectal carcinoma cell line) as target cells and MAb 17-1A induced significant increase in the lytic capacity of the effector cells. Based on these findings the therapeutic effect of the combination of mouse MAb 17-1A (IgG2a) against colorectal carcinoma (CRC) cells and GM-CSF was evaluated in 20 patients with metastatic CRC. The patients received GM-CSF (250 micrograms/m2/day s.c.) for 10 days and a single i.v. infusion of MAb 17-1A (400 mg) at day 3 of the cycle. The cycles were repeated with an interval of one month. Four cycles were given. ADCC as well as Fc-receptor bearing mononuclear cells increased significantly during therapy. Two patients achieved CR (10%). One patient had an MR (5%) and a further three patients were considered to have SD > 3 months (15%). The two CR patients are still in CR, 35+ and 30+ months respectively after initiation of therapy. Patients with an ADCC activity at start of therapy above the median value of the total patient material survived significantly longer than those patients with an ADCC reactivity below this value (p = 0.002).</p>","PeriodicalId":77257,"journal":{"name":"Medical oncology and tumor pharmacotherapy","volume":"10 1-2","pages":"61-70"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/BF02987770","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19248111","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
G Csanaky, V Kalász, G Kelényi, H Losonczy, Z Balikó, A Tóth
{"title":"Expression of an adhesion molecule and homing in B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukaemia: I. Application of the HEV-binding assay to a clinical series.","authors":"G Csanaky, V Kalász, G Kelényi, H Losonczy, Z Balikó, A Tóth","doi":"10.1007/BF02987779","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02987779","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>High endothelial venule (HEV)-binding of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) from 43 patients with B-cell chronic lymphocytic leukaemia (B-CLL) was investigated with a HEV-binding in vitro assay. Immunophenotyping of HEV-adherent PBMCs proved that most of them belonged to the B-cell proliferation. B-CLL cells stringently expressed CD44 molecules (Hermes-1, -3 and H90). The patients were subgrouped according to Binet's classification, as well as according to the organ manifestations, i.e. patients with B-cell monoclonal lymphocytosis of undetermined significance (B-MLUS) and patients with lymphocytosis (LY), lymph node enlargement (LN) and splenomegaly (SM). The HEV-binding activity of the cells was the highest in Binet stage A patients and in patients with B-MLUS (p < 0.05 in B-MLUS versus B-CLL LY, LN, SM). Based on these findings it is suggested that B-CLL patients show not only a clinical and immunophenotypical heterogeneity, but a diverse function of adhesion molecules.</p>","PeriodicalId":77257,"journal":{"name":"Medical oncology and tumor pharmacotherapy","volume":"10 3","pages":"125-30"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/BF02987779","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19252706","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Cerebral arterial disturbances in a transient encephalopathy induced by methotrexate.","authors":"J Y Follezou, L Chauveinc, J M Guerin","doi":"10.1007/BF02989667","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02989667","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>The mechanism of the transient encephalopathy induced by high dose systemic administration of methotrexate (HDMTX) is unknown. Metabolic and vascular hypothesis have been formulated but convincing evidence is lacking. We report the first case of vascular disturbances (thinness of cortical arteries on angiography, reversible fall down of cerebral flow and increase of carotid resistance) in a young Algerian patient treated for an osteogenic osteosarcoma. This observation might lead to the exploration by non invasive and easily repeatable techniques of the cerebral vascular dynamic in patients submitted to HDMTX and thus contributed to the elucidation of the mechanism and to the prevention of these neurological side effect.</p>","PeriodicalId":77257,"journal":{"name":"Medical oncology and tumor pharmacotherapy","volume":"10 4","pages":"181-3"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/BF02989667","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19157398","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Special issue: Biological response modifiers. Proceedings of an international symposium. 16-20 November 1992.","authors":"","doi":"","DOIUrl":"","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":77257,"journal":{"name":"Medical oncology and tumor pharmacotherapy","volume":"10 1-2","pages":"1-86"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"18899745","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
R Bataille, X G Zhang, J Wijdenes, J F Schved, B Klein
{"title":"Effects of an anti-interleukin-6 (IL-6) murine monoclonal antibody in a patient with acute monoblastic leukemia.","authors":"R Bataille, X G Zhang, J Wijdenes, J F Schved, B Klein","doi":"10.1007/BF02989668","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02989668","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Because IL-6 has been involved in the pathogenesis of acute monoblastic leukemia, we investigated the in vitro anti-proliferative effect and the in vivo anti-tumoral effect of an anti-IL-6 murine monoclonal antibody (mAb) in a patient with M5B type acute leukemia. In the current study, we clearly show the IL-6 dependence of monoblastic cell viability and proliferation in vitro in short-term cultures of malignant cells and the clinical activity of the anti-IL-6 murine mAb. The complete neutralization of IL-6 in vivo was associated with a transient but complete disappearance of malignant monoblastic cells in the peripheral blood, with improvement or even normalization of several other biological parameters of disease activity. No immunization against the anti-IL-6 murine mAb was observed.</p>","PeriodicalId":77257,"journal":{"name":"Medical oncology and tumor pharmacotherapy","volume":"10 4","pages":"185-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/BF02989668","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19157399","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Induction of cytotoxic lymphocyte subsets against leukemia by stimulation with AML blasts.","authors":"E Lotzová, C A Savary","doi":"10.1007/BF02987763","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02987763","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Although the application of interleukin-2 (IL-2) activated lymphocytes in immunotherapy of acute myelogenous leukemia (AML) is of therapeutic interest, the high resistance of AML blasts to lymphocyte lysis may represent an obstacle to this type of therapy. However, our data shows that the leukemia resistance can be conquered by concomitant culture of lymphocytes with IL-2 and AML blasts. This approach induces not only leukemia-directed cytotoxic cells, but also promotes their growth. Additionally, multiple cytotoxic lymphocyte populations with leukemia lytic activity are induced in AML/IL-2 cultures. These include natural killer (NK) cells and subsets of T cells with both the major histocompatibility complex (MHC)-restricted and MHC-nonrestricted cytotoxic function. Thus, this protocol, which is conducive to general stimulation of cellular immune responses against leukemia, may enhance the benefits of lymphocyte therapy.</p>","PeriodicalId":77257,"journal":{"name":"Medical oncology and tumor pharmacotherapy","volume":"10 1-2","pages":"13-9"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/BF02987763","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19247568","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
T Kalland, M Dohlsten, P Lind, A Sundstedt, L Abrahmsén, G Hedlund, P Björk, P A Lando, M Björklund
{"title":"Monoclonal antibodies and superantigens: a novel therapeutic approach.","authors":"T Kalland, M Dohlsten, P Lind, A Sundstedt, L Abrahmsén, G Hedlund, P Björk, P A Lando, M Björklund","doi":"10.1007/BF02987767","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02987767","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>We have developed a monoclonal antibody (mAb) based therapy intended for the treatment of solid tumors utilizing both main arms of the immune system by incorporating the colon carcinoma recognizing mAb C215 and the T cell activating bacterial staphylococcal enterotoxin A (SEA) in a single hybrid molecule. The recombinant tumor specific superantigen C215-SEA retained excellent antigen binding properties while the binding to MHC class II was markedly reduced and should allow targeting of a large fraction of T cells to tumors in vivo. C215-SEA mediated T cell killing of C215 expressing tumor cells irrespective of their expression of MHC class II antigens and induced levels of IFN-gamma and TNF in mononuclear cells sufficient to completely suppress the growth of colon carcinoma cells in vitro. In initial studies of anti-tumor effects, C215Fab-SEA was found to markedly inhibit the growth of colon carcinoma cells transplanted to Scid mice adoptively transferred with human mononuclear cells.</p>","PeriodicalId":77257,"journal":{"name":"Medical oncology and tumor pharmacotherapy","volume":"10 1-2","pages":"37-47"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/BF02987767","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19247571","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
A Hoekstra, V Bassot, S Bertoglio, J Y Bobin, P Delassus, R Egeli, D Khayat, J Y Ranchere, J Santini, P Segol
{"title":"Clinical evaluation of the CORDIS vascular access port systems: a multicenter study.","authors":"A Hoekstra, V Bassot, S Bertoglio, J Y Bobin, P Delassus, R Egeli, D Khayat, J Y Ranchere, J Santini, P Segol","doi":"10.1007/BF02987780","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02987780","url":null,"abstract":"<p><p>Two non-metallic vascular access port systems, the Multipurpose Access Port (MPAP) and Miniport, developed by CORDIS S.A., France, have been evaluated clinically in 78 cancer patients. During the investigational period covering a total experience of 369 treatment cycles and 1,370 infusion days, no cases of infection or septicemia were observed. Serious complications such as drug extravasation and catheter occlusion occurred, although the incidence was relatively low (+/- 1%) when compared with the number of treatment courses (cycles), but in relation to the number of patients included in this study, the procedure-related complication rate was 17.5% for the MPAP and 15.8% for the Miniport. Procedure-related complications can be avoided by proper handling and use of suitable drug combinations to minimize crystallization reactions within the port-catheter systems. The final complication rate (total minus procedure-related) in terms of termination of treatment, i.e. explantation of the port-catheter system was 12.1% for the MPAP and 12.5% for the MINIPORT, which generally confirms the results of other groups. More than 87% of both port-catheter systems were still functional at the end of evaluation.</p>","PeriodicalId":77257,"journal":{"name":"Medical oncology and tumor pharmacotherapy","volume":"10 3","pages":"131-8"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"1993-01-01","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"https://sci-hub-pdf.com/10.1007/BF02987780","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"19252707","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}