Patents Assigned to Univeristy of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
  • Publication number: 20090220551
    Abstract: The concurrent administration of chemotherapy and immunotherapy has been considered a contraindication because of the concern that the induced lymphopenia would ablate therapeutic efficacy of immunotherapy. Temozolomide has been shown to be an effective chemotherapeutic for patients with malignant gliomas and to deprive patients with glioblastoma (GBM) patients of this agent in order to treat with immunotherapy is controversial. Despite conventional dogma, we demonstrate that both chemotherapy and immunotherapy can be delivered concurrently without negating the effects of immunotherapy, in fact, the temozolomide induced lymphopenia may actually be synergistic with a peptide vaccine.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 2, 2006
    Publication date: September 3, 2009
    Applicants: Duke University, Univeristy of Texas M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
    Inventors: John H. Sampson, Darell D. Bigner, Mitchell Duane, Amy Heimberger