Treatment of Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma With Nephrectomy, Interleukin-2 and Cytokine-Primed or CD8(+) Selected Tumor Infiltrating Lymphocytes from Primary Tumor

Abstract

These results demonstrate that immunotherapy with radical nephrectomy, tumor infiltrating lymphocytes, and IL-2 provides substantial clinical benefit in the majority of patients. Component cellular therapy with enriched cell fractions allows the administration of a more standardized cell product. The present results with nephrectomy, tumor infiltrating lymphocytes and IL-2 are encouraging, and a randomized clinical trial of nephrectomy, CD8(+) tumor infiltrating lymphocytes, plus IL-2 versus nephrectomy and IL-2 alone is currently in progress.