Vaccine Against Gastrin, Polyclonal Antibody Stimulator, Decreases Pancreatic Cancer Metastases
Growth of pancreatic cancer is stimulated by gastrin in both a paracrine and an autocrine fashion. Traditional therapies have not significantly improved survival, and recently pancreatic cancer has been deemed a ‘cold’ tumor due to its poor response to immunotherapy. Strategies to improve survival of pancreatic cancer are desperately needed.
In the current investigation, we studied the effects of an anti-gastrin cancer vaccine, polyclonal antibody stimulator (PAS, formerly called G17DT and Gastrimmune) used alone or in combination with a PD-1 immune checkpoint antibody on pancreatic cancer growth, metastases, and the tumor microenvironment (TME). Immune competent female C57BL/6 mice bearing syngeneic orthotopic murine pancreatic cancer treated with PAS had significantly smaller tumors and fewer metastases. Read more . . .
