Qiu-Zhong Pan, Jing-Jing Zhao, Liang Liu, Dong-Sheng Zhang, Li-Ping Wang, Wen-Wei Hu, De-Sheng Weng, Xiang Xu, Yi-Zhuo Li, Yan Tang, Wei-Hong Zhang, Jie-Yao Li, Xiao Zheng, Qi-Jing Wang, Yong-Qiang Li, Tong Xiang, Li Zhou, Shuang-Ning Yang, Chen Wu, Rong-Xing Huang, Jia He, Wei-Jiao Du, Lu-Jun Chen, Yue-Na Wu, Bin Xu, Qiong Shen, Yi Zhang, Jing-Ting Jiang, Xiu-Bao Ren, Jian-Chuan Xia
Fluoropyrimidine-based combination chemotherapy plus targeted therapy is the standard initial treatment for unresectable metastatic colorectal cancer (mCRC), but the prognosis remains poor. This phase 3 trial (ClinicalTrials.gov: NCT03950154) assessed the efficacy and adverse events (AEs) of the combination of PD-1 blockade-activated DC-CIK (PD1-T) cells with XELOX plus bevacizumab as a first-line therapy in patients with mCRC. A total of 202 participants were enrolled and randomly assigned in a 1:1 ratio to receive either first-line XELOX plus bevacizumab (the control group, n = 102) or the same regimen plus autologous PD1-T cell immunotherapy (the immunotherapy group, n = 100) every 21 days for up to 6 cycles, followed by maintenance treatment with capecitabine and bevacizumab...
April 3, 2024: Signal Transduction and Targeted Therapy