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Novel lung cancer vaccine shows promise in fighting early-stage lung cancer
Date:4/6/2009

MAGE-A3 trial," said Kim. "This is a potential alternative for patients that otherwise would not undergo chemotherapy treatment either because of their tumor stage or other co-morbidities such as their age or other medical problems."

A total of 182 patients with non-small-cell lung cancers were included in the early phase of the study sponsored by GlaxoSmithKline, which is developing the vaccine therapy. All the patients had cancers expressing MAGE-A3, the tumor-specific antigen. After having surgery to remove the tumors, 122 patients were randomly assigned to treatment with the MAGE-A3-targeting vaccine and 60 patients received placebo vaccines. The preliminary research shows that the treatment was well tolerated by patients and the MAGE-A3-treated patients seemed less likely to have recurrences and die from their disease than the placebo-treated patients. Further studies need to be completed to test the safety and efficacy of the vaccine.

Patients were given five injections every three weeks at the beginning of treatment and then eight injections every three months later for a total of 27 months. Earlier phases of the study indicate the immunotherapy treatment was well tolerated by patients.


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Contact: Deborah Song
deb_song@rush.edu
312-942-0588
Rush University Medical Center
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