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Rate of Clinical Complete Response for 1 Year or More in Bone-Metastatic Breast Cancer after Comprehensive Treatments including Autologous Formalin-Fixed Tumor Vaccine.

ABSTRACT: Introduction:No effective treatment has been developed for bone-metastatic breast cancer. We found 3 cases with clinical complete response (cCR) of the bone metastasis and longer overall survival of the retrospectively examined cohort treated comprehensively including autologous formalin-fixed tumor vaccine (AFTV). Patients and Methods:AFTV was prepared individually for each patient from their own formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded breast cancer tissues. Results:Three patients maintained cCR status of the bone metastasis for 17 months or more. Rate of cCR for 1 year or more appeared to be 15% (3/20) after comprehensive treatments including AFTV. The median overall survival time (60.0 months) and the 3- to 8-year survival rates after diagnosis of bone metastasis were greater than those of historical control cohorts in Japan (1988-2002) and in the nationwide population-based cohort study of Denmark (1999-2007). Conclusion:Bone-metastatic breast cancer may be curable after comprehensive treatments including AFTV, although larger scale clinical trial is required.

SUBMITTER: Kuranishi F

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5822812 | biostudies-literature | 2018

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Rate of Clinical Complete Response for 1 Year or More in Bone-Metastatic Breast Cancer after Comprehensive Treatments including Autologous Formalin-Fixed Tumor Vaccine.

Kuranishi Fumito F Imaoka Yuki Y Sumi Yuusuke Y Uemae Yoji Y Yasuda-Kurihara Hiroko H Ishihara Takeshi T Miyazaki Tsubasa T Ohno Tadao T

International journal of breast cancer 20180122

<h4>Introduction</h4>No effective treatment has been developed for bone-metastatic breast cancer. We found 3 cases with clinical complete response (cCR) of the bone metastasis and longer overall survival of the retrospectively examined cohort treated comprehensively including autologous formalin-fixed tumor vaccine (AFTV).<h4>Patients and methods</h4>AFTV was prepared individually for each patient from their own formalin-fixed and paraffin-embedded breast cancer tissues.<h4>Results</h4>Three pat ...[more]

PMID: 29576883

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Rate of Clinical Complete Response for 1 Year or More in Bone-Metastatic Breast Cancer after Comprehensive Treatments including Autologous Formalin-Fixed Tumor Vaccine.

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Rate of Clinical Complete Response for 1 Year or More in Bone-Metastatic Breast Cancer after Comprehensive Treatments including Autologous Formalin-Fixed Tumor Vaccine.

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