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Interestingly, we found that a high ab solute number of tumor reactive T cells in the infusion product were more than 80 times higher for patients with a clinical response than for non JAK2 阻害剤 responders. Correlations between clinical response and patient demographics or treatment characteristics have been in tensively investigated by others. In ACT trials using high dose IL 2 no correlation between tumor burden and clin ical response has been observed previously and whether our findings are due to the lower amount of IL 2 given or whether it might just be a coincidence con sidering the low number of patients treated can not be concluded in this pilot study. Besser et al. also found a correlation between the percentage of CD8 T cells in the infusion product and clinical response as well as be tween the number of infused cells and clinical response.<br><br> Longer telomer length, a high percentage of CD8 CD27 TILs and persistency of the infused cells オーダー LDE225 in the circula tion have also been shown to correlate with clinical re sponse wherefore new methods resulting in shorter culturing time has emerged. Future initiatives on how to increase the tumor reactivity of infused TILs should be considered. We have recently shown that IFN is able to increase the im munogenicity of melanoma cells thereby restoring the responsiveness in otherwise unresponsive T cells in clin ical TIL products and IFN has in a previous study been shown to be able to induce clinical responses in combination with ACT. Also, other agents, such as BRAF inhibitors have been shown to have immune modulating potential.<br><br> Thus, the use of these agents in combination with ACT LY2157299 could have the potential to enhance immunogenicity of tumor cells and thereby increase the fraction of tumor specific T cells in the TIL product capable of killing tumor cells. A high percentage of vaccine specific T cells were found in the infusion product from a patient previously treated with an mRNA transfected DC vaccine. We hypothesize that vaccine specific T cells were induced during the DC vaccination but were not able to overcome immunosup pressive mechanisms and therefore did not give rise to a clinical significant anti tumor response. When T cells were activated and expanded ex vivo and re infused into the lymphodepleted patient a clinical response could be established.<br><br> Further analyses will be performed to clarify whether the vaccine specific cells are indeed induced dur ing vaccination and whether these cells equal the tumor reacting cells. Conclusions In conclusion, we demonstrate that durable complete responses can be achieved using ACT and short duration of low dose IL 2. The much less toxic regimen simpli fies the clinical setting of this therapy making it more attractive for other centers to establish. Also, the pos sibility of an association between the absolute num ber of tumor reactive T cells infused and clinical response is shown. This knowledge could be used in the future search for optimizing ACT, with new trials focusing on increasing the tumor sensitivity to T cell mediated killing as well as the number of potent tumor reactive T cells.