A First in Human Dose Escalation of Dendritic Cell Vaccine (DCV)

"Intrathecal (IT) dendritic cell vaccine (DCV) will be administered once every week. As per standard procedures of IT chemotherapy or antibody administration it is administered over 5 -10 minutes or at 1 ml/minute while monitoring the patient under sterile conditions. In general, to assure delivery of the DCVs into the ventricular space and compensate for dead space in the Ommaya, the delivery of IT DCV cells is followed by the administration of 2.5 mls of saline. In general there is a maximum volume of 10 mls of DCVs."