Immunotherapy, including gene therapy, for metastatic melanoma

The Australian and New Zealand Journal of Surgery
M G O'RourkeK A Ellem

Abstract

Current standard therapy for distant metastatic melanoma is ineffective and often compromises the quality of a patient's life. Immunotherapy is briefly reviewed in relation to its many forms: from local non-specific to the more recent specific vaccines, including those using specific melanoma peptides (e.g. from the proteins encoded by melanoma-associated gene (MAGE)) and those involving genetically transduced autologous melanoma cells using retroviral vectors in vitro. The mode of action of genetically transduced melanoma cells incorporating the granulocyte macrophage colony stimulating factor (GM-CSF) gene (GVAX) is presented as a paradigm for cytokine-mediated strategies. Trials of GVAX and other cytokine gene strategies are under way in Brisbane, Boston and Amsterdam, and some interim perspectives on the clinical outcomes and immunological mechanisms involved are sketched. Some of the compounding problems in immunotherapeutic strategies for cancer are identified, and possible adjunct manoeuvres for overcoming them are discussed.

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