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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 2015
Filed:
Dec. 09, 2009
George Peoples, San Antonio, TX (US);
Sathibalan Ponniah, Columbia, MD (US);
George Peoples, San Antonio, TX (US);
Sathibalan Ponniah, Columbia, MD (US);
The Henry M. Jackson Foundation for the Advancement of Miltary Medicine, Inc., Bethesda, MD (US);
Abstract
Provided are methods to induce and maintain a protective cytotoxic T-lymphocyte response to a peptide of the HER/neu oncogene, GP2, with the effect of inducing and maintaining protective or therapeutic immunity against breast cancer in a patient in clinical remission, including patients having low to intermediate levels of HER2/neu expression. The methods comprise administering to the patient an effective amount of a vaccine composition comprising a pharmaceutically acceptable carrier, an adjuvant such as GM-CSF, and the GP2 peptide. The methods may further comprise administering a periodic booster vaccine dose as needed due to declining GP2-specific T cell immunity. Also provided are vaccine compositions for use in the methods.