Cytokine-induced Killer Study for Patients With Stage II Melanoma
A Study of Ipilimumab Plus Cytokine-induced Killer Immunotherapy for Stage II Melanoma Patients
調査の概要
詳細な説明
despite the best clinical efforts and breakthroughs in biotechnology, most patients diagnosed with advanced stage melanoma continue to die from their disease. Reasons for this include: 1) patients are often diagnosed at a time when their melanoma has already spread to other sites such as the chest cavity, bone, liver, and brain limiting the options for surgical excision and 2) the cancer cells are resistant or become resistant to chemotherapy drugs used to treat the patient. Resistance to one type of chemotherapy agent often rapidly leads to resistance against many other chemotherapy drugs. These reasons are the major causes of cancer progression that are usually discussed when considering treatment options for patients with disease that continues to grow and spread. However, another important part of the body should be considered-- the immune system. Scientists have clearly shown that melanoma cells produce a number of abnormal proteins or abnormal amounts of certain proteins found in normal melanoma cells. Normally one would expect a patient to develop an immune response against these abnormal proteins found in their cancer and attack them much the way the investigators would fight off an infection from a foreign bacteria or virus. However, for reasons that scientists do not fully understand, the immune system fails to respond adequately to these abnormal proteins and does not destroy the melanoma cells. This human clinical trial proposes a new way to make the immune system recognize the cancer cells and encourages it to attack and destroy them.
In this project, the investigators have put a mouse gene into human melanoma cancer cells, so that those cells produce these abnormal sugar patterns and stimulate the immune system to attack the melanoma. This strategy works well to kill other human cancer cells in the laboratory, but it needs to be tried in melanoma patients to see if it will be effective and to determine if such a treatment causes any side effects. Investigators propose to test this new treatment in patients with melanoma to see if it can stop, slow or destroy tumors in these patients. Patients will be injected with an anti-tumor immunotherapy consisting of three types of dead human melanoma cancer cells that have been genetically altered to express the mouse gene responsible for making this abnormal sugar-protein on the cells.
In this Phase II Study, patients with early stage melanoma will undergo a series of intradermal injections with cytokine-induced killer therapy. These cell lines have been transduced with a recombinant. In addition to the cik therapy, some patients will also receive ipilimumab as an important component of this immunization strategy that will attempt to enhance and activate the host immune system to destroy growing tumor cells. Endpoints of the study include safety assessments, and clinical, tumor and immunological responses.
研究の種類
入学 (予想される)
段階
- フェーズ2
参加基準
適格基準
就学可能な年齢
健康ボランティアの受け入れ
受講資格のある性別
説明
Inclusion Criteria:
- Histological diagnosis of melanoma. AJCC Stage IV (any T, any N, M1), metastatic, progressive, refractory, melanoma.
Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) Performance Status ≤1. Serum albumin ≥3.0 gm/dL.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Age <18-years-old. Active CNS metastases or carcinomatous meningitis. Patients with CNS lesions that have been treated and who have no evidence of progression in the brain on CT/MRI for ≥1 month are eligible. Pregnant or nursing women due to the unknown effects of immunization on the developing fetus or newborn infant.
研究計画
研究はどのように設計されていますか?
デザインの詳細
- 主な目的:処理
- 割り当て:ランダム化
- 介入モデル:並列代入
- マスキング:なし(オープンラベル)
武器と介入
参加者グループ / アーム |
介入・治療 |
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実験的:IP plus CIK
Patients receive ipilimumab and CIK.
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CIK cells are transferred every 3 months for 1 year.
Ipilimumab are delivered every 3 weeks for one year
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アクティブコンパレータ:IP alone
Patients receive ipilimumab alone.
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Ipilimumab are delivered every 3 weeks for one year
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この研究は何を測定していますか?
主要な結果の測定
結果測定 |
時間枠 |
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全生存期間 (OS)
時間枠:5年
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5年
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無増悪生存期間 (PFS)
時間枠:1年
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1年
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協力者と研究者
研究記録日
主要日程の研究
研究開始
一次修了 (予想される)
研究の完了 (予想される)
試験登録日
最初に提出
QC基準を満たした最初の提出物
最初の投稿 (見積もり)
学習記録の更新
投稿された最後の更新 (見積もり)
QC基準を満たした最後の更新が送信されました
最終確認日
詳しくは
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