Immunotherapy and Immunoregulation

New approaches to immunotherapy: Thymomimetic drugs

“…Several reports indicate activity in human cancer. Levamisole, isoprinosine, and the various thymic hormones have received diverse clinical emphasis, including infections, [ 11]. If one accepts, as their immunopharmacologies indicate, that their modes of action are similar, then the clinical activities demonstrated for one carry implications for the others.…”

“…In general, there is little expectation for this form of therapy in late stage active progressive cancer or AIDS. In these circumstances, alternative, complex strategies, using combined immunotherapeutic modalities have been advocated by us [11,14]. In these circumstances the use of synergistic combinations of agents would appear to offer the greatest hope.…”