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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2021 Jul 13.
Published in final edited form as: Curr Opin Oncol. 2016 May;28(3):232–240. doi: 10.1097/CCO.0000000000000281

Table 1:

Select Immunotherapy Agents for Prostate Cancer

Class Agent Description Key References
Therapeutic Vaccines AdV-tk Adenoviral vector containing the Herpes virus thymidine-kinase gene Rojas-Martinez et al. [2]
DCVAC/PCa Autologous DCs pulsed with killed PSA-positive LNCaP cells Podrazil et al. [4]
PROSTVAC Poxviral-based peptide vaccine encoding the PSA gene + 3 T-cell costimulatory molecules (B7.1, ICAM-1 and LFA-3) Kantoff et al. [7]
Sipuleucel-T Autologous PBMCs activated ex vivo with PA2024 (PAP + GM-CSF) Kantoff et al. [8]
BDCA-1BDC-01 Autologous CD1c (BDCA-1+) blood derived DCs loaded with HLA-A*0201-restricted peptides Prue et al. [9]
pTVG-HP Plasmid DNA vaccine encoding PAP cDNA McNeel et al. [10]
CV9103 (RNActive) Self-adjuvanted mRNA vaccine targeting 4 antigens: PSA, PSMA, PSCA and STEAP1 Kübler et al. [11]
PPV
(personalized peptide vaccine)
Personalized vaccine made with up to 4 peptides (such as PSA, PAP, PSMA and MDRP)based on a patient’s unique immunoreactivity profile Noguchi et al. [12]
GVAX-PCa Vaccine comprised of cells from the LNCaP and PC3 cell lines and genetically modified to secrete GM-CSF Higano et al. [13]
Checkpoint Inhibitors Ipilimumab Fully human monoclonal antibody against CTLA-4 Kwon et al. [14]
Misc. Immuno-modulating agents HER2Bi-aATC Anti-CD3 ATC armed with anti-HER2 bispecific antibodies (HER2Bi) Vaishampayan et al.
[15]
Lenalidomide Immunomodulatory and anti-angiogenic properties Petrylak et al. [16]
Tasquinimod Immunomodulatory and anti-angiogenic properties Armstrong et al. [17]
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PSMA= prostate-specific membrane antigen, PSCA=prostate stem cell antigen, STEAP1=six-transmembrane epithelial antigen of the prostate 1