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CompletedNCT00311272

Dendritic Cell Vaccination in Patients With Advanced Colorectal Cancer

Vaccination With Autologous Dendritic Cells Pulsed With Allogenous Melanoma Lysate (MelCancerVac) for Treatment of Patients With Advanced Colorectal Cancer

Status
Completed
Phase
Phase 2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
40 (estimated)
Sponsor
University Hospital, Gentofte, Copenhagen · Academic / Other
Sex
All
Age
25 Years – 75 Years
Healthy volunteers
Not accepted

Summary

Dendritic cells loaded with tumor antigens induce cytotoxic T-cells which have been proved capable of killing both melanoma and breast cancer cells. Melanoma and colorectal cancer cells express some common antigens. Hence it is possible to use melanoma lysate to load the dendritic cells with tumor antigens similar to the antigens expressed by the patients' colorectal cancer cells. The patient receives 10 vaccinations with 14 days between each. The parameters for effect are changes in tumor/metastasis size measured with computed tomography (CT), decrease in serum concentration of carcinoembryonic antigen (CEA), performance status measured by the World Health Organization (WHO) criteria, and Quality of Life.

Conditions

Interventions

TypeNameDescription
BIOLOGICALMelCancerVac

Timeline

Start date
2004-11-01
Completion
2007-09-01
First posted
2006-04-05
Last updated
2009-02-18

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Denmark

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov record NCT00311272. Inclusion in this directory is not an endorsement.