Chemotherapy might help cancer vaccines work
...ancer Institute. Researchers used a drug called denileukin diftitox (ONTAK) for this study; the drug is routi... saw a heightened immune response when we used the denileukin diftitox in conjunction with the vaccine. The vacc... researchers found that when multiple doses of the denileukin diftitox were given, immune response to the vaccin...Diptheria Toxin And Interleukin2 Help Killing Melanoma Tumour Cells
...part of a phase II clinical trial to test the drug denileukin diftitox (also known as DAB (389) IL2 or ONTAK) in... II trial is continuing to examine the efficacy of denileukin diftitox in patients with melanoma.' The immun... if the Tregs were depleted by targeting them with denileukin diftitox, then particular T cells in the immune sy...