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Partial, but not Complete, Tumor-Debulking Surgery Promotes Protective Antitumor Memory when Combined with Chemotherapy and Adjuvant Immunotherapy

School of Medicine and Pharmacology and Western Australian Institute for Medical Research, Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital, University of Western Australia, Nedlands, Perth, Australia

Requests for reprints: Richard A. Lake, Department of Medicine, Tumour Immunology Group, The University of Western Australia, 4th Floor, G-Block, QEII Medical Centre, Perth, Western Australia, Australia 6009. E-mail: rlake{at}cyllene.uwa.edu.au.

Resection alone is rarely curative for advanced tumors, but the outcome generally improves with adjuvant therapy. We have previously shown that a combination of traditional chemotherapy (gemcitabine) and immunotherapy (anti-CD40/FGK-45) without surgery is synergistic and can lead to long-term cure when applied to small tumors. Such cured animals have immunologic memory and are protected from rechallenge. Here we investigate the effectiveness of combination chemotherapy and immunotherapy after partial or complete surgical debulking of large tumors. We found that complete resection followed by combination chemotherapy/immunotherapy led to a high rate of cure (>80%) but failed to induce a long-term, tumor-specific memory. Partial debulking followed by combination therapy elicited the same proportion of cured animals but in contrast to complete resection, a memory response was invoked. We postulate that chemotherapy induced apoptosis of the residual tumor cells following incomplete resection is absolutely required for the induction of long-term immunologic memory.

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