Plasma biomarker analysis of ovarian cancer patients undergoing immunotherapy with therapeutic cancer vaccine DPX-Survivac
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Background Immune based therapies for cancer are emerging as promising strategies to treat a number of malignancies. A more thorough biomarker assessment of the patients may provide insights into the variability in response to such immune therapies. In a Phase I/Ib clinical trial with the survivin-targeting vaccine DPX-Survivac, we showed the induction of robust immune responses in ovarian cancer patients. In this study, we investigated the potential of proteomic and metabolomic analysis of plasma to identify surrogate biomarkers for efficacy, recurrence and adverse events (AE) in vaccine recipients.
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