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Optimizing Vaccine Immunotherapy For Prostate Cancer, G. Hattier, E. K. Bongiorno, C. Portocarrero, Trevor R. Baybutt, Adam E. Snook, U. Rodeck
Optimizing Vaccine Immunotherapy For Prostate Cancer, G. Hattier, E. K. Bongiorno, C. Portocarrero, Trevor R. Baybutt, Adam E. Snook, U. Rodeck
Sigma Xi Student Research Day
Introduction: Treatment options for metastatic prostate cancer are limited and cures are rare. In other cancers immunotherapy has shown remarkable efficacy in certain patient subsets particularly when combined with other treatment modalities. Our previous work showed that combining radiation and vaccine therapy slows the growth of syngeneic prostate cancer in mice more effectively than single modality treatment arms. Here we tested the hypothesis that addition of immune checkpoint inhibitors targeting the PD1/PD-L1 axis further improves efficacy of the dual radiation/vaccine treatment.
Methods: Mice were injected with tumor cells expressing human prostate specific antigen (TPSA-23). The mice were divided into six …