The Johns Hopkins University

Massachusetts Institute of Technology

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Henry Brem

Betty M Tyler

Robert Samuel Langer

Abraham J Domb

Michael Lim

Drew M Pardoll

Dimitrios Mathios

Antonella Mangraviti

Sheng-Fu Lo

Tula Raghavan

Violette Renard Recinos

Sarah Brem Sunshine

Rafael J Tamargo

Robert A Bok

Jason Liauw

Alessandro Olivi

The presently disclosed subject matter provides methods, compositions, and kits for the treatment of cancer using a combination treatment comprising a locally administered chemotherapy and an immunotherapeutic agent. The presently disclosed subject matter also provides methods of promoting the combination treatment and instructing a patient to receive the combination treatment are also provided, as well immunotherapeutic, non-immunosuppressive compositions comprising the combination treatment, and methods of using the immunotherapeutic, non-immunosuppressive compositions for treating cancer.

Combination of immunotherapy with local chemotherapy for the treatment of malignancies

A marker for imaging includes a bio-dissolvable material and a contrast agent configured to provide contrast during an imaging procedure. A method can include forming a marker for imaging from a bio-dissolvable material and impregnating the bio-dissolvable material with a contrast agent. A method can include implanting a bio-dissolvable marker for imaging into a patient.

Post-surgical imaging marker

Local delivery formulations of the antineoplastic and microbicide agent acriflavine, and methods of making and using thereof are significantly more efficacious at increasing the median survival of subjects with proliferative disease than systemic administrations of acriflavine. The local delivery formulations of acriflavine show a dose-dependent increase in the median survival of subjects. The local delivery forms provide the increased efficacy without the toxicity associated with systemic administration of the agent.

Local delivery forms of acriflavine for treating tumors

The additive effect of combined intracranial carmustine ('BCNU') with intracranial temozolomide ('TMZ'), and particularly in combination with radiation (&#x201c;XRT&#x201d;), in the treatment of two rat intracranial glioma models, the 9L gliosarcoma and the F98 glioma, demonstrates that local delivery of both drugs, especially in combination with radiation, is far more effective than delivery of either drug alone or one systemically and one locally, either with or without radiation. The triple therapy showed a significant improvement in survival when compared to controls (p=0.0004), local BCNU (p=0.0043), oral TMZ (p=0.0026), local TMZ (p=0.0105), and the combinations of either BCNU and XRT (p=0.0378) or oral TMZ and local BCNU (p=0.0154).

Combination of local temozolomide with local BCNU

Pharmaceutical compositions for delivering an effective dose of an angiogenesis inhibitor consisting of a tetracycline or tetracycline such as minocycline. The effective dosage for inhibition of angiogenesis based on in vitro testing is between one and 500 micromolar. The compositions are delivered topically, locally or systemically using implants or injection. The composition is extremely selective for growth of endothelial cells, inhibiting growth, but is not cytotoxic at the effective dosages.

Antibiotic composition for inhibition of angiogenesis

Controlled local delivery of chemotherapeutic agents for treating solid

A method and devices for localized delivery of a chemotherapeutic agent to solid tumors, wherein the agent does not cross the blood-brain barrier and is characterized by poor bioavailability and/or short half-lives in vivo, are described. The devices consist of reservoirs which release drug over an extended time period while at the same time preserving the bioactivity and bioavailability of the agent. In the most preferred embodiment, the device consists of biodegradable polymeric matrixes, although reservoirs can also be formulated from non-biodegradable polymers or reservoirs connected to implanted infusion pumps. The devices are implanted within or immediately adjacent the tumors to be treated or the site where they have been surgically removed. The examples demonstrate the efficacy of paclitaxel and camptothecin delivered in polymeric implants prepared by compression molding of biodegradable and non-biodegradable polymers, respectively. The results are highly statistically significant.

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