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Cancer testis antigen and immunotherapy

       

Authors Krishnadas DK, Bai F, Lucas KG

Received 31 December 2012

Accepted for publication 22 February 2013

Published 18 April 2013 Volume 2013:2 Pages 11—19

DOI https://doi.org/10.2147/ITT.S35570

Checked for plagiarism Yes

Review by Single anonymous peer review

Peer reviewer comments 3

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Deepa Kolaseri Krishnadas, Fanqi Bai, Kenneth G Lucas

Department of Pediatrics, Division of Hematology/Oncology, University of Louisville, KY, USA

Abstract: The identification of cancer testis (CT) antigens has been an important advance in determining potential targets for cancer immunotherapy. Multiple previous studies have shown that CT antigen vaccines, using both peptides and dendritic cell vaccines, can elicit clinical and immunologic responses in several different tumors. This review details the expression of melanoma antigen family A, 1 (MAGE-A1), melanoma antigen family A, 3 (MAGE-A3), and New York esophageal squamous cell carcinoma-1 (NY-ESO-1) in various malignancies, and presents our current understanding of CT antigen based immunotherapy.

Keywords: cancer testis antigens, immunotherapy, vaccine

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