Vaccine Therapy With or Without Sargramostim in Treating Patients With Stage IIB, Stage IIC, Stage III, or Stage IV Melanoma

December 18, 2014 updated by: Craig L Slingluff, Jr

Evaluation of GM-CSF-in-Adjuvant and the Number of Vaccine Sites on Immunization With Multiple Synthetic Melanoma Peptides

RATIONALE: Vaccines may make the body build an immune response to kill tumor cells. Colony-stimulating factors such as sargramostim may increase the number of immune cells found in bone marrow or peripheral blood. Combining vaccine therapy with sargramostim may cause a stronger immune response and kill more tumor cells.

PURPOSE: This randomized phase II trial is studying vaccine therapy and sargramostim to see how well they work compared to vaccine therapy alone in treating patients with stage II B, stage IIC, stage III, or stage IV melanoma.

Study Overview

Status

Completed

Conditions

Intervention / Treatment

Detailed Description

OBJECTIVES:

  • Compare immune response in patients with stage IIB-IV melanoma treated with vaccination comprising multiple synthetic melanoma peptides and Montanide ISA-51 with vs without sargramostim (GM-CSF).
  • Compare immune response in patients treated with these vaccinations administered at 1 vs 2 sites.

OUTLINE: This is a randomized, open-label study. Patients are randomized to 1 of 4 treatment arms.

  • Arm I: Patients receive vaccination comprising multiple synthetic melanoma peptides and Montanide ISA-51 at 1 injection site.
  • Arm II: Patients receive vaccination comprising multiple synthetic melanoma peptides and Montanide ISA-51 at 2 injection sites.
  • Arm III: Patients receive vaccination comprising multiple synthetic melanoma peptides, Montanide ISA-51, and sargramostim (GM-CSF) at 1 injection site.
  • Arm IV: Patients receive vaccination comprising multiple synthetic melanoma peptides, Montanide ISA-51, and GM-CSF at 2 injection sites.

In all arms, treatment repeats once weekly for 6 weeks. Patients return for booster vaccinations at weeks 12, 26, 39, and 52.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A maximum of 124 patients will be accrued for this study.

Study Type

Interventional

Phase

  • Phase 2

Contacts and Locations

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Study Locations

  • United States
    • District of Columbia
      • Washington, District of Columbia, United States, 20010
        • Washington Cancer Institute at Washington Hospital Center
    • Pennsylvania
      • Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19111-2497
        • Fox Chase Cancer Center
      • Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States, 15232
        • Hillman Cancer Center at University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute
    • Texas
      • Houston, Texas, United States, 77030-4009
        • MD Anderson Cancer Center at University of Texas
    • Virginia
      • Charlottesville, Virginia, United States, 22908
        • Cancer Center at the University of Virginia

Participation Criteria

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Eligibility Criteria

Ages Eligible for Study

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

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

No

Genders Eligible for Study

All

Description

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

  • Diagnosis of melanoma

    • Stage IIB, IIC, III, or IV disease
  • Must express HLA-A1, -A2, or -A3
  • No ocular melanoma

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

Age

  • 12 and over

Performance status

  • ECOG 0-1

Life expectancy

  • Not specified

Hematopoietic

  • Absolute neutrophil count > 1,000/mm^3
  • Platelet count > 100,000/mm^3
  • Hemoglobin > 9 g/dL

Hepatic

  • Liver function tests ≤ 2.5 times upper limit of normal (ULN)

Renal

  • Creatinine ≤ 1.5 times ULN

Cardiovascular

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

Other

  • Not pregnant or nursing
  • No other malignancy within the past 5 years except basal cell or squamous cell skin cancer without brain metastasis, carcinoma in situ of the breast, or carcinoma in situ of the cervix

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

Biologic therapy

  • More than 4 weeks since prior immunotherapy
  • More than 4 weeks since prior growth factors
  • More than 4 weeks since prior allergy shots
  • No prior vaccine therapy for melanoma or any other cancer with any of the peptides used in this study
  • More than 12 weeks since prior melanoma vaccine therapy* NOTE: *Prior melanoma vaccine allowed only for patients with disease progression during or after administration of the vaccine

Chemotherapy

  • More than 4 weeks since prior chemotherapy

Endocrine therapy

  • More than 4 weeks since prior steroids

Radiotherapy

  • More than 4 weeks since prior radiotherapy

Surgery

  • Not specified

Study Plan

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How is the study designed?

Design Details

  • Primary Purpose: Treatment
  • Allocation: Randomized
  • Masking: None (Open Label)

Collaborators and Investigators

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Sponsor

Craig L Slingluff, Jr

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

September 1, 2003

Primary Completion (Actual)

February 1, 2007

Study Registration Dates

First Submitted

August 4, 2004

First Submitted That Met QC Criteria

August 4, 2004

First Posted (Estimate)

August 5, 2004

Study Record Updates

Last Update Posted (Estimate)

December 23, 2014

Last Update Submitted That Met QC Criteria

December 18, 2014

Last Verified

December 1, 2014

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Other Study ID Numbers

  • 10524
  • UVACC-MEL-43
  • FCCC-03045
  • MDA-2003-0720

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