Trials of vaccines for pancreatic ductal adenocarcinoma: Is there any hope of an improved prognosis?

Surgery Today

Volumn 46, Issue 2, 2016, Pages 139-148

  Mizuguchi, Toru ^a,c   Torigoe, Toshihiko ^a   Satomi, Fukino ^a   Shima, Hiroaki ^a   Kutomi, Goro ^a   Ota, Shigenori ^a   Ishii, Masayuki ^a   Hayashi, Hiroshi ^b   Asakura, Sumiyo ^a   Hirohashi, Yoshihiko ^a   Meguro, Makoto ^a   Kimura, Yasutoshi ^a   Nishidate, Toshihiko ^a   Okita, Kenji ^a   Ishino, Masaho ^a   Miyamoto, Atsushi ^a   Hatakenaka, Masamitsu ^a   Sato, Noriyuki ^a   Hirata, Koichi ^a  

^a SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b HOKKAIDO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^c SAPPORO MEDICAL UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

Author keywords

Immunomodulation; Pancreatic cancer; Vaccine

Indexed keywords

CANCER VACCINE; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; ERLOTINIB; GASTRIN; GEMCITABINE; GRANULOCYTE MACROPHAGE COLONY STIMULATING FACTOR VACCINE; HEAT SHOCK PROTEIN; K RAS PROTEIN; KINESIN; LIVE VACCINE; MUCIN 1; PACLITAXEL; PEPTIDE VACCINE; SURVIVIN; SURVIVIN 2B; TELOMERASE REVERSE TRANSCRIPTASE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; VASCULOTROPIN RECEPTOR 2; VIRUS VACCINE; BACTERIAL VACCINE; BIRC5 PROTEIN, HUMAN; GASTRIN IMMUNOGEN; GVAX VACCINE; INHIBITOR OF APOPTOSIS PROTEIN; KIF20A PROTEIN, HUMAN; MUC1 PROTEIN, HUMAN; PEPTIDE; TELOMERASE; TERT PROTEIN, HUMAN; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR-2, HUMAN; WT1 PROTEIN; WT1 PROTEIN, HUMAN;

CANCER CHEMOTHERAPY; CANCER PROGNOSIS; CANCER SURVIVAL; FOWLPOX VIRUS; HUMAN; LYMPHOKINE ACTIVATED KILLER CELL; PANCREAS ADENOCARCINOMA; REVIEW; SOLID TUMOR; TREATMENT RESPONSE; CARCINOMA, PANCREATIC DUCTAL; CLINICAL TRIAL (TOPIC); GENETICS; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MUTATION; ONCOGENE RAS; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS;

BACTERIAL VACCINES; CANCER VACCINES; CARCINOEMBRYONIC ANTIGEN; CARCINOMA, PANCREATIC DUCTAL; CLINICAL TRIALS AS TOPIC; FOWLPOX VIRUS; GASTRINS; GENES, RAS; HEAT-SHOCK PROTEINS; INHIBITOR OF APOPTOSIS PROTEINS; KINESIN; LISTERIA MONOCYTOGENES; MUCIN-1; MUTATION; PANCREATIC NEOPLASMS; PEPTIDES; TELOMERASE; VACCINES, ATTENUATED; VASCULAR ENDOTHELIAL GROWTH FACTOR RECEPTOR-2; VIRAL VACCINES; WT1 PROTEINS;

EID: 84955326632     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-015-1120-8     Document Type: Review

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