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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2019 Aug 1.
Published in final edited form as: Trends Cancer. 2018 Jul 3;4(8):553–566. doi: 10.1016/j.trecan.2018.06.004

Table 2.

Approved and investigational NK cell-based cancer immunotherapies.

S.No. Therapy/Inhibitor/Antibody Cancer type Clinical Trial Stage Clinical trial ID
1 Autologous NK cells Advanced Kidney Cancer
Metastatic melanoma
Digestive cancer
Phase I/II NCT02843607
NCT00631072
UMIN000007527
2 Allogenic NK cells Metastatic Gastrointestinal Carcinoma
High-risk AML (HINKL)
Lymphoma and Solid tumors
Phase I/II NCT02845999
NCT02229266
NCT01212341
3 NK Cell lines (Neukoplast (NK-92)) Hematological Malignancies Phase I NCT00990717
NCT00900809
4 CAR-NK cells Relapsed/Refractory CD33+ AML
Metastatic Solid Tumors
Acute Lymphoblastic Leukemia
Pre-clinical/Phase 1/II NCT02944162
NCT03415100
NCT01974479
5 IL-2 Lymphoma, lung cancer and melanoma FDA approved
6 IL-15 Advanced Solid Tumors
Acute Myelogenous Leukemia
Phase I NCT01875601
NCT01572493
NCT01385423
7 IL-15 Superagonist (ALT-803) Relapsed/Refractory AML Phase II NCT03050216
8 Anti-KIR mAB (IPH2101) Smoldering Multiple Myeloma Phase I NCT01248455
9 Anti-NKG2A mAB (IPH2201/Monalizumab) Metastatic squamous cell carcinoma
Refractory Lymphoid Malignancies
Hematological Malignancies
Gynecological Malignancies
Phase I/II NCT02643550
NCT02671435
NCT02921685
NCT02459301
10 mAB targeting tumor antigens (Rituximab/Trastuzumab/Cetuximab) Non-Hodgkin’s Lymphoma
Refractory Lymphoid Malignancies
Breast and Gastric Cancer
Advanced Solid Tumors
Recurrent Non-small Cell Lung Cancer
FDA approved/Phase I/II NCT03019640
NCT01181258
NCT02030561
NCT03319459
NCT02845856
11 Epigenetic drugs (Decitabine with Donor NK cells and Aldesleukin) Relapsed/Refractory AML Phase I NCT02316964