Vaccine Therapy in Treating Patients With Metastatic Cancer

June 17, 2013 updated by: National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Immunization of HLA-A*0201 Patients With Metastatic Cancer Using a Peptide Epitope From the Telomerase Antigen

RATIONALE: Vaccines made from a peptide may make the body build an immune response and kill tumor cells.

PURPOSE: Randomized phase II trial to study the effectiveness of vaccine therapy in treating patients who have metastatic cancer.

Study Overview

Status

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Completed

Conditions

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Intervention / Treatment

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Detailed Description

OBJECTIVES:

  • Determine whether an immunologic response can be obtained in HLA*0201-expressing patients with metastatic cancer treated with telomerase: 540-548 peptide vaccine emulsified in Montanide ISA-51.
  • Determine which vaccine strategy (frequency, schedule, and dosing) is best for future studies in these patients.
  • Determine the toxicity of this treatment in these patients.
  • Determine whether prior immunization with telomerase: 540-548 peptide vaccine results in increased clinical response to interleukin-2 in patients with melanoma.

OUTLINE: This is a randomized study. Patients are stratified according to disease (metastatic cutaneous melanoma vs other tumor types). Patients are randomized to one of three treatment arms.

  • Arm I: Patients receive telomerase: 540-548 peptide vaccine emulsified in Montanide ISA-51 subcutaneously (SC) on day 1 of weeks 1-4 and 7-10. Patients also undergo leukapheresis over 3 hours at baseline and after each course of treatment.
  • Arm II: Patients receive telomerase: 540-548 peptide vaccine emulsified in Montanide ISA-51 SC on day 1 of weeks 1, 4, 7, and 10. Patients also undergo leukapheresis over 3 hours at baseline, after the vaccine on week 4, and after each course of treatment.
  • Arm III: Patients receive telomerase: 540-548 peptide vaccine emulsified in Montanide ISA-51 SC on days 1-4 of weeks 1, 4, 7, and 10. Patients undergo leukapheresis as in arm II.

Treatment in all arms repeats every 13 weeks for 4-6 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients with a complete response (CR) receive 1 additional course of treatment after achieving CR.

Eligible melanoma patients with progressive disease on vaccine alone on any of the 3 arms may receive interleukin-2 (IL-2) combined with vaccine as in arm II. Beginning the day after each immunization, IL-2 is administered IV over 15 minutes every 8 hours over 4 days on weeks 1, 4, 7, and 10 for a maximum of 12 doses. Patients continuing to experience disease progression on combined vaccine and IL-2 therapy go off study after 2 courses of combined therapy.

Patients are followed at 3 weeks.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 90-162 patients (30-54 per treatment arm; 45-81 per stratum) will be accrued for this study within less than 2 years.

Study Type

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Interventional

Phase

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  • Phase 2

Contacts and Locations

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Study Locations

  • United States
    • Maryland
      • Bethesda, Maryland, United States, 20892-1182
        • Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center - NCI Clinical Studies Support

Participation Criteria

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Eligibility Criteria

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Ages Eligible for Study

16 years and older (Child, Adult, Older Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

  • Presenting with evaluable metastatic cancer

    • Refractory to standard treatment OR
    • Post-radiation for malignant glioma
  • HLA-A*0201 expression

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

Age:

  • 16 and over

Performance status:

  • ECOG 0-2

Life expectancy:

  • More than 3 months

Hematopoietic:

  • WBC at least 3,000/mm^3
  • Platelet count at least 90,000/mm^3

Hepatic:

  • Bilirubin no greater than 1.6 mg/dL
  • AST/ALT less than 3 times normal
  • Hepatitis B surface antigen negative

Renal:

  • Creatinine no greater than 2.0 mg/dL

Cardiovascular:

  • No cardiac ischemia by stress thallium or comparable test*
  • No prior myocardial infarction*
  • No cardiac arrhythmias* NOTE: *Patients receiving interleukin-2 (IL-2) only

Pulmonary:

  • No obstructive or restrictive pulmonary disease (patients receiving IL-2 only)

Immunologic:

  • HIV negative
  • No autoimmune disease or any other known immunodeficiency disease
  • No active primary or secondary immunodeficiency

Other:

  • No other active major medical illness*
  • No active systemic infection
  • Not pregnant
  • Negative pregnancy test
  • Fertile patients must use effective contraception NOTE: *Patients receiving IL-2 only

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

Biologic therapy:

  • No prior telomerase: 540-548 peptide immunization

Chemotherapy:

  • Recovered from prior chemotherapy

Endocrine therapy:

  • No requirement for systemic steroid therapy

Radiotherapy:

  • See Disease Characteristics
  • Recovered from prior radiotherapy

Surgery:

  • Not specified

Other:

  • At least 3 weeks since prior systemic therapy for cancer

Study Plan

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Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Treatment
  • Allocation: Randomized

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Sponsor

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National Cancer Institute (NCI)

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Study Major Dates

Study Start

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May 1, 2001

Study Completion (Actual)

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May 1, 2004

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July 11, 2001

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January 26, 2003

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January 27, 2003

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June 19, 2013

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

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June 17, 2013

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April 1, 2004

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  • CDR0000068756
  • NCI-01-C-0176
  • NCI-4970

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