Phase I/II clinical trial of a melanoma vaccine targeting shared non-mutated antigens and a shared mutated BRAF neoantigen with an agonistic CD40 antibody (CDX-1140) plus TLR3 agonist (poly-ICLC)

Journal for ImmunoTherapy of Cancer | |

Background <p>For patients with high-risk melanoma who are unresponsive or intolerant to immune checkpoint inhibitors, cancer vaccines may provide benefit with a favorable toxicity profile. CD4<sup>+</sup> T cells provide essential help to dendritic cells (DCs) for optimal CD8<sup>+</sup> T cell priming in the antitumor response, and induction of tumor-cognate CD4<sup>+</sup> T cell responses may enhance vaccine efficacy. We report on…

Topics: skin-cancer, cervical-cancer, immunotherapy, clinical-trials