Vaccine Therapy Plus Interleukin-12 in Treating Patients With Metastatic Prostate Cancer That Has Not Responded to Hormone Therapy

March 6, 2014 updated by: University of Chicago

Phase II Study of Immunization With PSMA Peptide-Pulsed Autologous PBMC Plus rhIL-12 in Patients With Metastatic Prostate Cancer

RATIONALE: Vaccines made from a patient's white blood cells may make the body build an immune response to kill cancer cells. Interleukin-12 may kill cancer cells by stopping blood flow to the tumor and by stimulating a person's white blood cells to kill cancer cells. Combining vaccine therapy with interleukin-12 may kill more tumor cells.

PURPOSE: Phase II trial to study the effectiveness of vaccine therapy combined with interleukin-12 in treating patients who have metastatic prostate cancer that has not responded to hormone therapy.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

OBJECTIVES:

  • Determine whether immunization with prostate-specific membrane antigen-pulsed autologous peripheral blood mononuclear cells and interleukin-12 can promote specific T-cell priming in patients with metastatic hormone-refractory prostate cancer.
  • Determine the clinical response in patients treated with this regimen.

OUTLINE: Patients receive prostate-specific membrane antigen-pulsed autologous peripheral blood mononuclear cells subcutaneously (SC) on day 1 and interleukin-12 SC on days 1, 3, and 5. Treatment repeats every 21 days for 3-9 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.

Patients are followed every 3 months.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 12-37 patients will be accrued for this study within 37 weeks.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

13

Phase

  • Phase 2

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
    • Illinois
      • Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60637-1470
        • University of Chicago Cancer Research 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

Male

Description

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

  • Histologically confirmed metastatic adenocarcinoma of the prostate
  • HLA-A2 positive

  • Progressive measurable systemic disease

    • PSA at least 5 ng/mL with 2 consecutive rising PSA levels at least 1 week apart and no measurable disease OR
    • Objective evidence of disease progression by a 20% increase in the sum of longest diameter of all target lesions or evidence of new lesions by CT or bone scan regardless of PSA status
    • Lesions must be at least 1 cm to be considered measurable
    • Progressive systemic disease after discontinuation of anti-androgen therapy

  • Previously treated with orchiectomy (testosterone less than 50 ng/mL) OR luteinizing hormone-releasing hormone (LHRH) analogue therapy with or without anti-androgens

    • If on LHRH analogue therapy, must continue therapy during study
  • Brain metastases allowed if previously treated, clinically stable, and weaned from prior corticosteroids

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

Age:

  • Over 18

Performance status:

  • Karnofsky 70-100%

Life expectancy:

  • At least 12 weeks

Hematopoietic:

  • Absolute neutrophil count greater than 1,500/mm^3
  • Hemoglobin greater than 9 g/dL
  • Platelet count greater than 100,000/mm^3
  • No active gastrointestinal bleeding

Hepatic:

  • Bilirubin less than 1.5 times upper limit of normal (ULN)
  • SGPT normal
  • Hepatitis B surface antigen negative

Renal:

  • Creatinine less than 1.5 times ULN
  • Calcium less than 11 mg/dL

Cardiovascular:

  • No significant cardiovascular disease
  • No cardiac arrhythmia requiring therapy

Other:

  • Fertile patients must use effective barrier contraception
  • No intrinsic immunosuppression
  • HIV negative
  • No serious concurrent infection
  • No psychiatric illness that would preclude study compliance
  • No clinically significant autoimmune disease
  • No uncontrolled peptic ulcer disease
  • No history of inflammatory bowel disease

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

Biologic therapy:

  • At least 4 weeks since prior biologic therapy

Chemotherapy:

  • Not specified

Endocrine therapy:

  • See Disease Characteristics
  • At least 4 weeks since prior flutamide
  • At least 6 weeks since prior bicalutamide or nilutamide
  • No concurrent systemic corticosteroids except physiologic replacement doses

Radiotherapy:

  • Not specified

Surgery:

  • See Disease Characteristics

Other:

  • No concurrent immunosuppressive drugs (e.g., cyclosporine)

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: N/A
  • Interventional Model: Single Group Assignment
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Arms and Interventions

Participant Group / Arm
Intervention / Treatment
Experimental: PSMA peptide vaccine
Immunization with PSMA peptide vaccine followed by injection of Interleukin-12 (IL-12) on Day 1 of a 21-day cycle. Additional injections of IL-12 given on Days 3 and 5 of each cycle.
Biological: recombinant interleukin-12
Other Names:
  • IL-12, rhIL-12
Biological: PSA prostate cancer vaccine

What is the study measuring?

Primary Outcome Measures

Outcome Measure
Time Frame
Disease response
Time Frame: 63 days
63 days

Collaborators and Investigators

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

Sponsor

University of Chicago

Collaborators

National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Investigators

  • Study Chair: Thomas F. Gajewski, MD, PhD, University of Chicago

Study record dates

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Study Major Dates

Study Start

November 1, 2001

Primary Completion (Actual)

March 1, 2003

Study Completion (Actual)

January 1, 2005

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

May 6, 2001

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

January 26, 2003

First Posted (Estimate)

January 27, 2003

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Estimate)

March 7, 2014

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

March 6, 2014

Last Verified

March 1, 2014

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • 9845 (Registry Identifier: Fred Hutch/University of Washington Cancer Consortium)
  • UCCRC-9845
  • NCI-1192

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