Biological Therapy in Treating Patients With Advanced Cancer

July 7, 2014 updated by: Duke University

A Pilot Study of Active Immunotherapy With HER2/Neu Intracellular Domain (ICD) Protein-Pulsed, Autologous, Cultured Dendritic Cells in Patients With No Evidence of Disease After Standard Treatment for HER2/Neu Expressing Malignancies

RATIONALE: A person's white blood cells mixed with tumor proteins may make the body build an immune response to kill tumor cells.

PURPOSE: Phase I trial to study the effectiveness of biological therapy in treating patients who have advanced cancer that shows no signs of disease following treatment.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

OBJECTIVES:

  • Evaluate the immune response of patients with HER2/neu expressing advanced malignancies showing no evidence of disease after standard treatment when injected with HER2/neu intracellular domain protein pulsed autologous dendritic cells.
  • Assess time to recurrence in these patients.

OUTLINE: Autologous dendritic cells (DC) are pulsed with HER2/neu intracellular domain protein (ICD). The pulsed DC are administered subcutaneously (SQ) and intradermally, followed by autologous DC mixed with tetanus toxoid (TT) and autologous DC mixed with keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH) SQ and intradermally on day 1. HLA-A2 positive patients also receive autologous DC mixed with CMV pp65 peptide SQ and intradermally on day 1. Treatment continues every 3 weeks for a total of 4 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.

Patients are followed every 3 months for 1 year or until disease progression.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 6 patients will be accrued for this study over 6 months.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

3

Phase

  • Not Applicable

Contacts and Locations

This section provides the contact details for those conducting the study, and information on where this study is being conducted.

Study Locations

  • United States
    • North Carolina
      • Durham, North Carolina, United States, 27710
        • Duke Comprehensive Cancer Center

Participation Criteria

Researchers look for people who fit a certain description, called eligibility criteria. Some examples of these criteria are a person's general health condition or prior treatments.

Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

18 years and older (ADULT, OLDER_ADULT)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

  • Histologically confirmed advanced malignancy that expresses HER2/neu

    • Stage IIA breast cancer with more than 6 positive lymph nodes
    • Stage IIB, IIIA, or IIIB breast cancer
    • Stage III ovarian cancer
    • Lymph node positive gastric cancer
    • Metastatic tumor
  • No measurable or evaluable disease after standard treatment
  • No previously irradiated or newly diagnosed CNS metastases

  • Hormone receptor status:

    • Not specified

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

Age:

  • 18 and over

Menopausal status:

  • Not specified

Performance status:

  • Karnofsky 80-100%

Life expectancy:

  • Greater than 6 months

Hematopoietic:

  • WBC at least 3,000/mm^3
  • Hemoglobin at least 9 mg/dL
  • Platelet count at least 100,000/mm^3

Hepatic:

  • Bilirubin less than 2.0 mg/dL
  • No hepatic disease, including viral hepatitis

Renal:

  • Creatinine less than 2.5 mg/dL

Cardiovascular:

  • No New York Heart Association class III or IV heart disease

Pulmonary:

  • No asthma or chronic obstructive pulmonary disease

Immunologic:

  • Must have positive intradermal delayed hypersensitivity test for at least 1 of the following:

    • Candida
    • Mumps
    • Tetanus
    • Trichophyton
    • Histoplasmin

  • No prior autoimmune disease including, but not limited to, the following:

    • Inflammatory bowel disease
    • Systemic lupus erythematosus
    • Ankylosing spondylitis
    • Scleroderma
    • Multiple sclerosis

Other:

  • Not pregnant or nursing
  • Negative pregnancy test
  • Fertile patients must use effective contraception
  • HIV negative
  • Hepatitis B surface antigen and hepatitis C antibody negative
  • No other concurrent serious chronic or acute illness or infection (including urinary tract infection)
  • No known shellfish or iodine allergy
  • No other prior or concurrent malignancy except for nonmelanoma skin cancer, cervical cancer, or controlled superficial bladder cancer
  • No medical or psychological condition that may preclude study

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

Biologic therapy:

  • No other concurrent immunotherapy

Chemotherapy:

  • At least 4 weeks since prior chemotherapy and recovered
  • No concurrent chemotherapy

Endocrine therapy:

  • Concurrent hormonal therapy allowed (tamoxifen, raloxifene, toremifene, and all aromatase inhibitors)
  • At least 4 weeks since prior steroid or immunosuppressive therapy (e.g, azathioprine or cyclosporine)

Radiotherapy:

  • Prior radiotherapy allowed except to cranium
  • At least 4 weeks since prior radiotherapy and recovered
  • At least 12 weeks since prior strontium chloride Sr 89
  • No concurrent radiotherapy

Surgery:

  • At least 4 weeks since prior surgery and recovered

Other:

  • Concurrent bisphosphonates allowed
  • No prior hepatitis B immunization

Study Plan

This section provides details of the study plan, including how the study is designed and what the study is measuring.

How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: TREATMENT
  • Allocation: NA
  • Interventional Model: SINGLE_GROUP
  • Masking: NONE

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Measure Description
Time Frame
Safety
Time Frame: 12 months
safety
12 months

Collaborators and Investigators

This is where you will find people and organizations involved with this study.

Sponsor

Duke University

Collaborators

National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Publications and helpful links

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General Publications

Study record dates

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Study Major Dates

Study Start

February 1, 2000

Primary Completion (ACTUAL)

August 1, 2001

Study Completion (ACTUAL)

July 1, 2002

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

July 5, 2000

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

May 20, 2003

First Posted (ESTIMATE)

May 21, 2003

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (ESTIMATE)

July 9, 2014

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

July 7, 2014

Last Verified

March 1, 2013

More Information

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Other Study ID Numbers

  • 1309
  • 6542 (OTHER: FDA)
  • 1528 (OTHER: DUMC IRB)
  • CDR0000067937 (OTHER: NCI)

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