Addition of Immunotherapy Prolongs Survival in Kidney Cancer

Addition of Immunotherapy Prolongs Survival in Kidney Cancer: 

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"Fully Personalized Immunotherapy

AGS-003 is produced by extracting messenger RNA from a sample of a patient's tumor (obtained at the time of nephrectomy) and incorporating it into the patient's dendritic cells (obtained during a single leukapheresis procedure). This is a fully personalized immunotherapy, Dr. Amin told Medscape Medical News."

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"Tyrosine-kinase inhibitors such as sunitinib have "revolutionized the treatment of kidney cancer; now everybody can get a drug treatment," he said. However, although they do prolong survival, the responses are not durable.

In this trial, Dr. Amin and colleagues have shown that adding immunotherapy to standard therapy increases the durability of the response, and AGS-003 is not associated with any toxic events, other than injection-site reactions and erythema, he said."

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