Clinical development of combination strategies in immunotherapy: are we ready for more than one investigational product in an early clinical trial?

Immunotherapy
José L Perez-GraciaIgnacio Melero

Abstract

Stimulating the innate and adaptive immunity against cancer necessitates the tricking of a system evolved to fight microbial pathogens and directing its activity towards transformed self-tissue. Efficacious interventions to start and sustain the response will probably require a number of agents to tamper simultaneously or sequentially with several immune mechanisms. Although master switches controlling various functions may exist, the goal of a curative immune response will probably demand the combined actions of several therapeutic components. Synergy occurs when drugs interact in ways that enhance or magnify one or more effects or side effects. In cancer immunotherapy, two agents that have minor or no therapeutic effects as single agents can be powerful when combined. Mouse experimentation provides multiple examples of synergistic combinations. Elements to be combined include chiefly: tumor vaccines, adoptive T-cell therapies, cytokines, costimulatory molecules, molecular deactivation of immunosuppressive or tolerogenic pathways and immunostimulatory monoclonal antibodies. These novel therapies, even as single agents, are extremely complex products to be developed owing to the associated biomolecules, cell therapies or gene t...Continue Reading

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