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ReviewProstate cancer2025

Cellular Immunotherapy for Prostate Cancer: Lessons Learned From 15 Years of Sipuleucel-T.

Neal D Shore, Emmanuel S Antonarakis, Jason Hafron, Kelvin A Moses, Christopher Pieczonka, Benjamin Lowentritt, Nadeem Sheikh, Daniel J George, Tanya Barauskas Dorff

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Review in Prostate cancer, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Cited by 3 papers.

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

9 authors.

Neal D ShoreGenitourinary Oncology Center of Excellence, START Carolinas/Carolina Urologic Research Center, Myrtle Beach, South Carolina, USA.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-5767-0548
Emmanuel S AntonarakisUniversity of Minnesota Masonic Cancer Center, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota, USA, umn.edu.
Jason HafronClinical Research, Michigan Institute of Urology, West Bloomfield, Michigan, USA.
Kelvin A MosesDepartment of Urology, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee, USA, vanderbilt.edu.
Christopher PieczonkaClinical Research, Associated Medical Professionals of NY, Syracuse, New York, USA.
Benjamin LowentrittMinimally Invasive Surgery and Robotics, Chesapeake Urology, Towson, Maryland, USA.
Nadeem SheikhResearch and Manufacturing Science, Dendreon Pharmaceuticals, Seattle, Washington, USA.
Daniel J GeorgeMedical Oncology, Duke University Cancer Center, Durham, North Carolina, USA.
Tanya Barauskas DorffDepartment of Medical Oncology and Therapeutics Research, City of Hope National Cancer Center, Duarte, California, USA.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

The first cellular cancer immunotherapy, sipuleucel-T, was approved for metastatic castration-resistant prostate cancer (mCRPC) patients 15 years ago. Since then, the therapeutic landscape of advanced prostate cancer has significantly evolved. Sipuleucel-T is a personalized, autologous immunotherapy that activates the patient's immune system to target prostatic acid phosphatase (PAP)-expressing tumor cells and has demonstrated survival benefit in patients with nonopioid requiring mCRPC. Subsequent clinical trials and abundant real-world data have provided further evidence of this novel immunotherapy's clinical benefit for patients with mCRPC, as well as demonstrating the numerous immune and biologic responses that sipuleucel-T induces. These data have also identified patient-specific factors associated with longer survival, including race, baseline disease burden, and treatment-induced immune responses. Despite the addition of multiple life-prolonging therapeutic modalities now available to treat patients with mCRPC, the mechanism of action of sipuleucel-T remains unique for patients with advanced prostate cancer. Therefore, maximizing the appropriate clinical utilization of sipuleucel-T in patients with mCRPC within current treatment paradigms is essential.

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immunotherapyprostate cancersipuleucel-T

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PMID41497742
PMCPMC12767674

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