Title
Effects of laser immunotherapy on late-stage, metastatic breast cancer patients in a Phase II clinical trial
Date Issued
01 January 2014
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
conference paper
Author(s)
Publisher(s)
SPIE
Abstract
Laser immunotherapy (LIT), a novel technique with a local intervention to induce systemic antitumor effects, was developed to treat metastatic cancers. The pre-clinical studies of LIT have shown its unique characteristics in generating a specific antitumor immunity in treating metastatic tumors in rats and mice. For late-stage, metastatic breast cancer patients, who were considered to be out of other available treatment options, we conducted a small Phase II clinical trial using LIT starting in 2009 in Lima, Peru. This Phase II study was closed in December of 2012, as acknowldged by the Ministry of Health (MOH) of Peur letter 438-2014-OGITT/INS dated March 5th, 2014. Ten patients were enrolled and received LIT in one or multiple 4-week treatment cycles. At the study closing date, four patients were alive and two of them remained cancer free. Here, following the successful conclusion of our Phase II study, we report the clinical effects of LIT on metastatic breast cancer patients. Specifically, we present the overall status of all the patients three years after the treatment and also the outcomes of two long-term surviving patients. © 2014 SPIE.
Volume
8944
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Inmunología
Oncología
Subjects
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-84901791173
Source
Progress in Biomedical Optics and Imaging - Proceedings of SPIE
ISSN of the container
16057422
ISBN of the container
9780819498571
Conference
Biophotonics and Immune Responses IX
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