The Immunotherapy of Nasopharyngeal Cancer Using Cancer Stem Cells Vaccine

Inclusion Criteria:

• 1.patients are greater than 18 years of age, with advanced local disease (T3-T4N0-1M0), nodal disease (T1-T2N2-3M0) and loco-regional disease (T3-T4N2-3M0) at onset but presently controlled by standard therapy (combination of chemotherapy and radiotherapy) or with completely resected metastatic disease.

  2.Pathologic confirmation of nasopharyngeal carcinoma by the NCI Laboratory of Pathology (NPC).

  3.serum creatinine of 2.0 mg/dl or less. 4.Total bilirubin 1.6 mg/dl or less, except for patients with Gilbert's Syndrome who must have a total bilirubin less than 3.0 mg/dl.

  5.WBC 3000/mm(3) or greater. 6.platelet count 90,000 mm(3) or greater. 7.serum AST/ALT less than three times normal. 8.ECOG performance status of 0 or 1. 9.Patients of both genders must be willing to practice effective birth control during this trial because the potential for teratogenic effects are unknown.

  10.Patients may have had prior adjuvant treatment or may have had treatment for metastatic disease and are now with no evidence of disease, including chemotherapy or biotherapy, as long as 1 month has elapsed since prior systemic therapy.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Patients who test positive for Hepatitis B virus, Hepatitis C virus or HIV. 2. level 3 hypertension; 3. severe coronary disease; 4. myelosuppression; 5. respiratory disease; 6. brain metastasis; 7. chronic infections