Journal
NEURO-ONCOLOGY
Volume 22, Issue 8, Pages 1214-1225Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS INC
DOI: 10.1093/neuonc/noaa047
Keywords
immunotherapy; intraventricular infusions; natural killer cells; recurrent brain tumors
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- Noah's Light Foundation
- Rally Foundation
- Addi's Faith Foundation
- Jaxon's FROG Foundation
- Archer Foundation
- Stripes Foundation, Texas
- Meryl Charles Witmer Charitable Foundation
- American Cancer Society
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Background. Recurrent pediatric medulloblastoma and ependymoma have a grim prognosis. We report a first-in-human, phase I study of intraventricular infusions of ex vivo expanded autologous natural killer (NK) cells in these tumors, with correlative studies. Methods. Twelve patients were enrolled, 9 received protocol therapy up to 3 infusions weekly, in escalating doses from 3 x 10(6) to 3 x 10(8) NK cells/m(2)/infusion, for up to 3 cycles. Cerebrospinal fluid (CSF) was obtained for cellular profile, persistence, and phenotypic analysis of NK cells. Radiomic characterization on pretreatment MRI scans was performed in 7 patients, to develop a non-invasive imaging-based signature. Results. Primary objectives of NK cell harvest, expansion, release, and safety of 112 intraventricular infusions of NK cells were achieved in all 9 patients. There were no dose-limiting toxicities. All patients showed progressive disease (PD), except 1 patient showed stable disease for one month at end of study follow-up. Another patient had transient radiographic response of the intraventricular tumor after 5 infusions of NK cell before progressing to PD. At higher dose levels, NK cells increased in the CSF during treatment with repetitive infusions (mean 11.6-fold). Frequent infusions of NK cells resulted in CSF pleocytosis. Radiomic signatures were profiled in 7 patients, evaluating ability to predict upfront radiographic changes, although they did not attain statistical significance. Conclusions. This study demonstrated feasibility of production and safety of intraventricular infusions of autologous NK cells.These findings support further investigation of locoregional NK cell infusions in children with brain malignancies.
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