| Literature DB >> 11489245 |
B M Hayes-Lattin1, R T Maziarz, T M Beer.
Abstract
Metastatic renal-cell carcinoma (RCC) remains resistant to nearly all standard cytotoxic therapies, but immune-based cytokine therapies benefit a small minority of patients with advanced RCC. Nonmyeloablative allogeneic stem-cell transplantation is a novel approach to harnessing the immune system to combat this cancer. The strategy relies on a T-cell graft-versus-malignancy effect mediated by donor T cells. Preliminary work in using nonmyeloablative allogeneic stem-cell transplant in RCC has identified a graft-versus-RCC effect and yielded encouraging clinical responses.Entities:
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Year: 2001 PMID: 11489245 DOI: 10.1007/s11912-001-0030-7
Source DB: PubMed Journal: Curr Oncol Rep ISSN: 1523-3790 Impact factor: 5.075