Maintenance Immunotherapy With Autologous Cytokine-induced Killer Cells for Small Cell Lung Cancer
Inclusion Criteria:
- Histologically or cytologically proven small cell lung cancer
- Patients currently receiving 4-6 cycles of chemotherapy regimen with VP-16 and a
platinum-based drug as first-line therapy in the absence of disease progression
- Age between 18-75
- Performance status ≤2
- No uncontrolled metabolic disease, infection, and neurological disorders
- No congestive heart failure, severe arrhythmia, and coronal atherosclerosis heart
disease
- Life expectancy more than three months.
- Without contraindication of immunotherapy with autologous cytokine-induced killer
cells
- No other malignancies
- Signed study-specific consent form prior to study entry
Exclusion Criteria:
- Patients receiving other anti-tumor therapy (like thermotherapy)
- Pregnant or lactating women
- Allergy or unacceptable toxicity of immunotherapy with autologous cytokine-induced
killer cells
- Uncontrolled mental disorder
- Patient having acute hepatitis virus infection, active tuberculosis, or other acute
infectious diseases