Vaccine-Induced Memory CD8+ T Cells Provide Clinical Benefit in HER2 Expressing Breast Cancer: A Mouse to Human Translational Study.
Erika J CrosbyWilliam R GwinKimberly BlackwellP Kelly MarcomSerena ChangHolden T MaeckerGloria BroadwaterTerry HyslopSungjin KimAndre RogatkoVeronica LubkovJoshua C SnyderTakuya OsadaAmy C HobeikaMichael A MorseHerbert Kim LyerlyZachary Conrad HartmanPublished in: Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research (2019)
VRP-HER2 increased HER2-specific memory CD8 T cells and had antitumor effects in preclinical and clinical studies. The expansion of HER2-specific memory CD8 T cells in vaccinated patients was significantly correlated with increased PFS. Subsequent studies will seek to enhance T-cell activity by combining with anti-PD-1.