Article
Association of HLA phenotype with response to active specific immunotherapy of melanoma.
Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology - 1 Jul 1992
Mitchell M S, Harel W, Groshen S
Abstract excerpt
PURPOSE: Only a proportion of patients with disseminated melanoma who were immunized successfully with a therapeutic melanoma vaccine (theraccine) had a major clinical response. We investigated whether there was a correlation between their HLA phenotypes and the likelihood of a clinical response. PATIENTS AND METHODS: Seventy patients with disseminated melanoma who were treated with melanoma theraccine were...
Topics
- Adult
- Aged
- Aged, 80 and over
- Alleles
- Female
- Genes, MHC Class I
- Humans
- Immunotherapy, Active
- Lymphocytes
- Male
- Melanoma
- Middle Aged
