Yusuke Oji, Masayoshi Inoue, Yoshito Takeda, Naoki Hosen, Yasushi Shintani, Manabu Kawakami, Takuya Harada, Yui Murakami, Miki Iwai, Mari Fukuda, Sumiyuki Nishida, Jun Nakata, Yoshiki Nakae, Satoshi Takashima, Toshiaki Shirakata, Hiroko Nakajima, Kana Hasegawa, Hiroshi Kida, Takashi Kijima, Soyoko Morimoto, Fumihiro Fujiki, Akihiro Tsuboi, Eiichi Morii, Satoshi Morita, Junichi Sakamoto, Atsushi Kumanogoh, Yoshihiro Oka, Meinoshin Okumura, Haruo Sugiyama
Thymic epithelial tumors are rare malignancies, and no optimal therapeutic regimen has been defined for patients with advanced disease. Patients with advanced thymic epithelial tumors, which were resistant or intolerable to prior therapies, were eligible for this study. Patients received 9 mer-WT1-derived peptide emulsified with Montanide ISA51 adjuvant via intradermal administration once a week as a monotherapy. After the 3-month-protocol treatment, the treatment was continued mostly at intervals of 2-4 weeks until disease progression or intolerable adverse events occurred...
June 1, 2018: International Journal of Cancer. Journal International du Cancer