highly significantp = 0.009
In accordance with the in vivo advantage of utilizing an IL-2-independent pathway of costimulation of tumor-specific T cells, in a retrospectively analyzed cohort of patients with metastatic malignant melanoma treated with cyclophosphamide and tumor-antigen transfected DCs ( NCT00978913 ) we observed a highly significant inverse relation between overall survival and expression of IL-2Rα on DC vaccine products (p = 0.009).