Abstract: Objective To investigate the clinical effects of dendritic cells-cytokine induced killer cells (DC-
CIK) immunotherapy on immune function in patients with primary liver cancer. Methods Total of 90 patients
with primary liver cancer who underwent TACE from 2013 to 2015 in People’s Hospital of Huangpo District
were randomly selected and divided into treatment group (50 cases) and control group (40 cases). Patients
in treatment group were given hepatectomy and DC-CIK cell therapy and patients in control group were
given hepatectomy only. After treatment, the total effective rate, immune function, quality of life and adverse
reactions were analyzed. Results After treatment, the levels of CD3 + , DC 1 /DC 2 and CD4 + /CD8 + in treatment
group were significantly higher than those in control group (t = 1.64, 0.54, 0.39; P = 0.032, 0.038, 0.029).
In treatment group, the life quality of 32% (16/50) patients improved, which was significantly higher than
that in the control group [17.5% (7/50), χ 2 = 12.6, P = 0.045]. After DK-CIK cell therapy, Th1 in treatment
group increased from (8.5 ± 3.3)% to (12.9 ± 4.4)% and Th2 decreased from (5.6 ± 2.5)% to (4.6 ± 1.7)%,
the differences were statistically significant (t = 0.025, 0.028, P = 0.041, 0.039). Conclusion After DC-CIK
therapy, the immune functionin of patients with primary liver cancer increased significantly, the treatment
efficiency and the life quality also had some improvement.
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