Trial Watch: Immunostimulation with recombinant cytokines for cancer therapy

Elena García-Martínez, Melody Smith, Aitziber Buqué, Fernando Aranda, Francisco Ayala de la Peña, Alejandra Ivars, Manuel Sanchez Cánovas, Ma Angeles Vicente Conesa, Jitka Fucikova, Radek Spisek, Laurence Zitvogel, Guido Kroemer, Lorenzo Galluzzi

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    Cytokines regulate virtually aspects of innate and adaptive immunity, including the initiation, execution and extinction of tumor-targeting immune responses. Over the past three decades, the possibility of using recombinant cytokines as a means to elicit or boost clinically relevant anticancer immune responses has attracted considerable attention. However, only three cytokines have been approved so far by the US Food and Drug Administration and the European Medicines Agency for use in cancer patients, namely, recombinant interleukin (IL)-2 and two variants of recombinant interferon alpha 2 (IFN-α2a and IFN-α2b). Moreover, the use of these cytokines in the clinics is steadily decreasing, mostly as a consequence of: (1) the elevated pleiotropism of IL-2, IFN-α2a and IFN-α2b, resulting in multiple unwarranted effects; and (2) the development of highly effective immunostimulatory therapeutics, such as immune checkpoint blockers. Despite this and other obstacles, research in the field continues as alternative cytokines with restricted effects on specific cell populations are being evaluated. Here, we summarize research preclinical and clinical developments on the use of recombinant cytokines for immunostimulation in cancer patients.

    langue originaleAnglais
    Numéro d'articlee1433982
    journalOncoImmunology
    Volume7
    Numéro de publication6
    Les DOIs
    étatPublié - 3 juin 2018

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