NCT01082198

Melanoma Vaccine in Treating Patients With Stage III Melanoma After Surgery to Remove Lymph Nodes

Adjuvant Vaccination With Melanoma Antigen Pulsed Dendritic Cells (DCs) in Stage III Melanoma Patients

• Status: Unknown
• Phase: Phase 1 / Phase 2
• Study type: Interventional
• Enrollment: 22 (estimated)
• Sponsor: Maria Sklodowska-Curie National Research Institute of Oncology · Academic / Other
• Sex: All
• Age: 18 Years
• Healthy volunteers: Not accepted

Summary

RATIONALE: Vaccines made from dendritic cells and tumor antigen peptides or a person's tumor cells may help the body build an effective immune response to kill tumor cells. PURPOSE: This phase I/II trial is studying the side effects and best way to give melanoma vaccine in treating patients with stage III melanoma after surgery to remove the lymph nodes.

Detailed description

OBJECTIVES: * Determine the feasibility of adjuvant melanoma vaccine comprising autologous dendritic cells pulsed with tumor antigen peptides in patients with stage III melanoma following lymphadenectomy. * Determine the immune response (skin test of delayed-type hypersensitivity and flow cytometric enumeration of peripheral blood CD8+ lymphocytes producing IFN-γ) to this regimen in these patients. * Determine clinical outcome (disease-free survival, overall survival, and adverse events) in patients treated with this regimen. OUTLINE: Patients undergo leukapheresis for collection of peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMCs) and bone marrow mononuclear cells. Autologous dendritic cells (DCs) prepared from PBMCs and bone marrow mononuclear cells are exposed to various antigens and peptides, and autologous tumor cell lysate, if available. Patients receive autologous DCs pulsed with melanoma-associated antigen peptides, and autologous DCs pulsed with tumor lysates (if available), subcutaneously in weeks 0, 2, 5, 8, 12, 16, 20, 26, 31, 50, and 102. Patients with no evidence of disease may receive another booster injection 5 years after the start of vaccination. Blood samples are examined via flow cytometry and skin testing is performed to evaluate immune response.

Conditions

• Melanoma (Skin)

Interventions

Type	Name	Description
BIOLOGICAL	HLA-A1-binding MAGE-1/MAGE-3 multipeptide-pulsed autologous dendritic cell vaccine
BIOLOGICAL	HLA-A2-binding TYR/MART-1/gp100 multipeptide-pulsed autologous dendritic cell vaccine
BIOLOGICAL	autologous melanoma lysate-pulsed autologous dendritic cell vaccine
BIOLOGICAL	autologous melanoma lysate/KLH-pulsed autologous dendritic cell vaccine
BIOLOGICAL	dendritic cell-idiotype-keyhole limpet hemocyanin vaccine
OTHER	flow cytometry
PROCEDURE	adjuvant therapy

Timeline

• Start date: 2002-10-01
• Primary completion: 2010-04-01
• First posted: 2010-03-08
• Last updated: 2013-08-26

Locations

1 site across 1 country: Poland