18 april 2012: lees ook een artikel over immuuntherapie: Tumor immunologie: je afweersysteem vecht tegen kanker met recente en ook duidelijke informatie en aangepast aan de nieuwste ontwikkelingen. En is zowel in het Nederlands als Engels geschreven.

16 december 2006: Bron: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0406180101 (2004) en Nieuwsbank. Met dank aan Theo.

Een aanpak met een monoclonale middel welke een immunologische reactie oproept pakt bij een studie met muizen erg goed uit. Geen enkele muis die werd behandeld met het "vaccin" overleed, in tegendeel bij alle behandelde muzien verdwenen hun tumoren zo goed als volledig. Terwijl in de vcntrole groep op 1 na alle muizen binnen 30 dagen overleden aan hun melanoomkanker. Begin 2007 willen de onderzoekers nu een studie met melanoompatienten opzetten.

Infectious Disease Researchers Develop Basis for Experimental Melanoma Treatment While investigating a fungus known to cause an infection in people with AIDS, two grantees of the National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases (NIAID), part of the National Institutes of Health (NIH), unexpectedly discovered a potential strategy for treating metastatic melanoma, one of the deadliest forms of skin cancer. The treatment approach, which involves combining an antibody with radiation, has since been further developed and is expected to enter early-stage human clinical studies in 2007.

This is an excellent example of how scientific research in one discipline may have payoffs in a completely unpredictable way, says NIAID Director Anthony S. Fauci, M.D. This important AIDS-related research has led to the development of a promising therapeutic strategy for a terrible cancer that affects thousands of people each year.

Arturo Casadevall, M.D., Ph.D., of the Albert Einstein College of Medicine at Yeshiva University, in New York City, and his research team began studying the biology of the skin pigment melanin to better understand why its synthesis plays a role in the process whereby certain yeastlike fungi, specifically Cryptococcus neoformans, cause disease in some people. C. neoformans can cause cryptococcosis, a potentially fatal fungal infection that can lead to inflammation of the brain and death in people with AIDS and other immunocompromised individuals.

The researchers created an infection-fighting (monoclonal) antibody that binds to melanin, based on scientific evidence suggesting that, when melanin is synthesized, it causes the immune system to react in a way that might create antibodies to fend off C. neoformans infection. Based on this finding, Dr. Casadevall theorized that melanomas might contain melanin that would allow the monoclonal antibody to deliver radiation to tumor cells. Dr. Casadevall then teamed with his colleague Ekaterina Dadachova, Ph.D., an expert in nuclear medicine and fellow NIAID grantee, to investigate whether the melanin-binding antibody could be converted into an anti-tumor drug.

In a study published in October 2004, Dr. Casadevall and Dr. Dadachova, the studys lead author, combined the C. neoformans monoclonal antibodies with radiation to create radiolabeled antibodies. They then tested these radiolabeled antibodies in mice to determine their effectiveness in attacking melanoma tumors. Initially, the mice had melanoma tumors ranging from 0.6 to 1.0 centimeters (cm) in diameter. After receiving a single dose of the radiolabeled antibodies, tumor growth was completely inhibited and near total tumor regression occurred in those animals with smaller tumors (0.6 to 0.7 cm in diameter). Further, the treated mice showed no signs of kidney or other organ damage and none died during the 30-day study. Conversely, tumors continued to aggressively grow in the untreated control group and by day 20, all but one of the eight untreated mice had died.

In November 2006, Pain Therapeutics, Inc., a San Francisco-based biopharmaceutical company, licensed the radiolabeled monoclonal antibody technology from the Albert Einstein College of Medicine. The company intends to begin testing it as a metastatic melanoma treatment in small human clinical trials in 2007. According to the American Cancer Society, melanoma accounts for approximately five percent of all skin cancers but causes roughly 75 percent of all skin cancer-related deaths.

Dr. Casadevall credits his promising discovery to luck and a hunch that paid off. Scientific breakthroughs often occur completely through serendipity, and this is just one of those instances, says Dr. Casadevall. Were still working on cryptococcis and developing a general strategy for using radiolabeled monoclonal antibodies to fight infectious diseases.

His laboratory continues to examine the underlying causes of cryptococcosis, and in continued collaboration with Dr. Dadachova, is exploring the use of radiolabeled monoclonal antibodies to treat infectious diseases.

For more information about melanoma, see the National Cancer Institute Web site at: www.cancer.gov/. NIAID is a component of the National Institutes of Health. NIAID supports basic and applied research to prevent, diagnose and treat infectious diseases such as HIV/AIDS and other sexually transmitted infections, influenza, tuberculosis, malaria and illness from potential agents of bioterrorism. NIAID also supports research on basic immunology, transplantation and immune-related disorders, including autoimmune diseases, asthma and allergies. News releases, fact sheets and other NIAID-related materials are available on the NIAID Web site at www.niaid.nih.gov. The National Institutes of Health (NIH) -- The Nation's Medical Research Agency -- includes 27 Institutes and Centers and is a component of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. It is the primary federal agency for conducting and supporting basic, clinical and translational medical research, and it investigates the causes, treatments, and cures for both common and rare diseases. For more information about NIH and its programs, visit www.nih.gov. --- Reference: E Dadachova et al. Dead cells in melanoma tumors provide abundant antigen for targeted delivery of ionizing radiation by a mAb to melanin. Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences DOI: 10.1073/pnas.0406180101 (2004).


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