Vaccine Therapy in Treating Patients With Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia

April 26, 2017 updated by: UConn Health

A Feasibility And Toxicity Study Of Vaccination With HSP70 For The Treatment Of Chronic Myelogenous Leukemia In Chronic Phase

RATIONALE: Vaccines made from a person's white blood cells may make the body build an immune response to kill cancer cells.

PURPOSE: Phase I trial to study the effectiveness of vaccine therapy in treating patients who have chronic myelogenous leukemia.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

OBJECTIVES:

  • Determine the feasibility of vaccination with autologous heat shock protein 70 in patients with chronic phase chronic myelogenous leukemia.
  • Determine the toxicity of this vaccination in these patients.

OUTLINE: Patients undergo leukapheresis to obtain peripheral mononuclear cells (PMNCs). Heat shock protein 70 (HSP70) is derived from the autologous PMNCs. Patients receive HSP70 intradermally once weekly for 8 weeks.

Patients are followed for 2 weeks.

Study Type

Interventional

Enrollment (Actual)

20

Phase

  • Phase 1

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
    • Connecticut
      • Farmington, Connecticut, United States, 06030-1601
        • University of Connecticut Health 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 to 120 years (Adult, Older Adult)

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

  • Diagnosis of chronic phase chronic myelogenous leukemia

    • Philadelphia chromosome positive
  • Peripheral blast count no greater than 10%
  • No molecular remission
  • Less than 3 years since initial diagnosis
  • No anticipation of requirement for bone marrow or stem cell transplantation for 6 months

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

Age:

  • 18 and over

Performance status:

  • ECOG 0-1

Life expectancy:

  • Not specified

Hematopoietic:

  • Hemoglobin at least 10 g/dL
  • Platelet count at least 20,000/mm^3

Hepatic:

  • Bilirubin less than 2.0 times upper limit of normal (ULN)
  • Transaminase less than 2.0 times ULN

Renal:

  • Creatinine less than 2.0 mg/dL

Other:

  • Not pregnant
  • Negative pregnancy test
  • Fertile patients must use effective contraception
  • No significant active infection requiring hospitalization
  • No other serious illness or significant behavioral or psychological problem that would preclude study involvement

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

Biologic therapy:

  • See Disease Characteristics
  • Prior interferon alfa allowed
  • No concurrent interferon alfa

Chemotherapy:

  • Prior cytarabine or other cytotoxic agents allowed
  • No concurrent cytarabine or other cytotoxic agents
  • Concurrent hydroxyurea allowed

Endocrine therapy:

  • No concurrent corticosteroid therapy

Radiotherapy:

  • Not specified

Surgery:

  • Not specified

Other:

  • No concurrent immunosuppressive medications
  • Concurrent imatinib mesylate allowed

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: vaccine
recombinant 70-kD heat-shock protein
Biological: recombinant 70-kD heat-shock protein

Collaborators and Investigators

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

Sponsor

UConn Health

Investigators

  • Study Chair: Zihai Li, MD, PhD, UConn Health

Publications and helpful links

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General Publications

Study record dates

These dates track the progress of study record and summary results submissions to ClinicalTrials.gov. Study records and reported results are reviewed by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) to make sure they meet specific quality control standards before being posted on the public website.

Study Major Dates

Study Start (Actual)

January 1, 2001

Primary Completion (Actual)

January 1, 2004

Study Completion (Actual)

January 1, 2004

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

February 14, 2002

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

January 26, 2003

First Posted (Estimate)

January 27, 2003

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Actual)

April 28, 2017

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

April 26, 2017

Last Verified

April 1, 2017

More Information

Terms related to this study

Keywords

Additional Relevant MeSH Terms

Other Study ID Numbers

  • UCHC-01117
  • CDR0000069127 (Registry Identifier: PDQ (Physician Data Query))
  • UCHC-7659
  • NCI-V01-1685

Drug and device information, study documents

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated drug product

Yes

Studies a U.S. FDA-regulated device product

No

product manufactured in and exported from the U.S.

No

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