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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Jul 15.
Published in final edited form as: Open J Immunol. 2018 Jun 29;8(2):36–80. doi: 10.4236/oji.2018.82004

Table S3.

Monotherapy dose and frequency.

Treatment Agent Type Dose and Frequency Infusion Time Infusion Rate
Chemotherapy Irinotecan [32] 125 mg/m2 given weekly. This cycle may be repeated. 1.5 hr vC1 = 57.947 mg/L · day
Chemotherapy (Hypothetical) 125 mg/m2 given weekly. This chemotherapy agent was assumed to have the same cytotoxic properties on the tumor and immune cells as Irinotecan. It was assumed that tumor cells never develop resistance to this drug. This cycle may be repeated. 1.5 hr vC2 = 57.947 mg/L · day
Monoclonal antibody Cetuximab [32] Loading dose (LD): 400 mg/m2 (a one-time injection before giving the maintenance doses) Maintenance dose (MD): 250 mg/m2 (given weekly – start one week after giving LD and rest 2 weeks every 4 weeks). This cycle may be repeated. LD: 2 hr MD: 1 hr LD: vA = 139.072mg/L · day
MD: vA = 173.840 mg/L · day
Note: the same infusion term vA is used for cetuximab and for panitumumab, but their vA values are different.
Monoclonal antibody Panitumumab [32] 6 mg/kg every two weeks. No loading dose is required. This cycle may be repeated. 1 hr vA = 168.816 mg/L · day
Monoclonal antibody Fresolimumab (anti-TGF-β) [43] 3 mg/kg every two weeks. This cycle may be repeated. 1.5 hr vF = 56.272 mg/L · day
Monoclonal antibody Anti-IL-10 Est. from [44] 3 mg/kg every two weeks. This cycle may be repeated. 1.5 hr vAI10 = 21.0 mg L · day
RTK inhibitor Sunitinib (anti-Treg) [45] A Sunitinib capsule is given daily for 28 straight days followed by two weeks of rest. In total, 23.447 mg of sunitinib are administered per each 6-week cycle. This cycle may be repeated. None vs = 0.8374 mg/L · day
Adoptive cell transfer NK cells [46] An intravenous injection of 2 × 107 NK cells per kg is given weekly. This cycle may be repeated. 1 hr vNK = 5.627 × 108 cells/L · day
Adoptive cell transfer CTL [47] Five intravenous injections of 1 × 1010 CTL per m2 are given every 5 days and they are followed by 45 days of rest. This 65-day cycle may be repeated. 1 hr vCTL = 6.9536 × 109 cells/L · day
Cytokine Treatment IL-2 [48] 180,000 IU/kg injected over 15 minutes every 8 hours. 0.25 hr vIL2 = 2.0258 × 107 IU/L · day
Adoptive cell transfer M1 macrophages An intravenous injection of 2 × 107 M1 macrophages per kg is given weekly. This cycle may be repeated. 1 hr vM1 = 5.627 × 108 cells/L · day
Adoptive cell transfer Th1 helper cells An intravenous injection of 2 × 107 Th1 cells per kg is given weekly. This cycle may be repeated. 1 hr vT1 = 5.627 × 108 cells/L · day