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Brain and Central Nervous System TumorsPhase 2NCT00014573

Chemotherapy and Vaccine Therapy Followed by Bone Marrow or Peripheral Stem Cell Transplantation and Interleukin-2 in Treating Patients With Recurrent or Refractory Brain Cancer

A Phase 2 study testing aldesleukin, autologous tumor cell vaccine and filgrastim in people with Brain and Central Nervous System Tumors, run by Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute at 1 site in United States.

Completed

Finished. The study has ended and is not enrolling. Results may be posted on the official record.

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Trial summary

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Combining chemotherapy with bone marrow or peripheral stem cell transplantation may allow the doctor to give higher doses of chemotherapy drugs and kill more tumor cells. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages Up to 65 years
Conditions the study is for
Brain and Central Nervous System Tumors
What is being tested?
aldesleukin, autologous tumor cell vaccine and filgrastim
Type of treatment
Vaccines, Surgery or procedure
How many people
Not given
Where
1 siteUnited States
Study dates
Aug 1998to Oct 2004
Phase
Phase 2
Are there results?
None posted in the registry

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages Up to 65 years
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Child, Adult, Older adult

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

  • Histologically confirmed active recurrent or refractory primary high-grade brain tumor
  • Tumor must be surgically accessible
  • Bidimensionally measurable disease by clinical exam, CT scan, or x-ray
  • Disease must be outside a previously irradiated field or have progressed or developed after radiotherapy
  • Previously treated metastatic bony lesions are not considered measurable
  • No previously irradiated metastatic disease site unless no response or clear progression on imaging

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

Age:

  • 65 and under

Performance status:

  • CALGB 0-2

Life expectancy:

  • More than 3 months

Hematopoietic:

  • Absolute neutrophil count greater than 1,500/mm^3
  • Platelet count greater than 100,000/mm^3

Hepatic:

  • Liver function less than 2.5 times normal unless due to disease
  • No active hepatitis B or C

Renal:

  • Creatinine less than 1.5 mg/dL
  • Creatinine clearance greater than 60 mL/min

Cardiovascular:

  • Left ventricular ejection fraction greater than 50% by MUGA or 2-D echocardiogram
  • Electrocardiogram normal

Pulmonary:

  • FEV1 and DLCO greater than 50% predicted OR
  • Clearance by pulmonologist

Other:

  • Not pregnant or nursing
  • Negative pregnancy test
  • Fertile patients must use effective contraception
  • HIV negative
  • No serious underlying co-morbid disease or other medical or psychiatric factor that would preclude study
  • Able to be weaned off steroids after surgery

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

Biologic therapy:

  • Not specified

Chemotherapy:

  • Recovered from prior conventional chemotherapy

Endocrine therapy:

  • No concurrent steroid therapy for mass effect

Radiotherapy:

  • See Disease Characteristics
  • Recovered from prior conventional radiotherapy

Surgery:

  • See Disease Characteristics

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

United States1 site

  • Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute

    Detroit, Michigan, 48201-1379

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About this study

Official title: Phase II Trial Of High Dose Cyclophosphamide, Cisplatin And Carmustine With Stem Cell Reconstitution Followed By Specific Cellular Therapy In Patients With Recurrent Or Refractory Brain Tumors

RATIONALE: Drugs used in chemotherapy use different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Combining chemotherapy with bone marrow or peripheral stem cell transplantation may allow the doctor to give higher doses of chemotherapy drugs and kill more tumor cells. Vaccines made from a person's white blood cells and tumor cells may make the body build an immune response to kill tumor cells. Interleukin-2 may stimulate a person's white blood cells to kill tumor cells.

PURPOSE: Phase II trial to study the effectiveness of combination chemotherapy and vaccine therapy followed by bone marrow or peripheral stem cell transplantation and interleukin-2 in treating patients who have recurrent or refractory brain cancer.

Read the detailed description

OBJECTIVES:

  • Determine the effectiveness of induction paclitaxel and cyclophosphamide followed by autologous tumor cell vaccine and sargramostim (GM-CSF) followed by high-dose chemotherapy with cisplatin, cyclophosphamide, and carmustine, autologous bone marrow or peripheral blood stem cell transplantation, and interleukin-2 in patients with recurrent or refractory primary high-grade brain tumors.
  • Determine the safety and toxicity of this regimen in these patients.
  • Determine if a specific quantitative cellular response can be elicited in patients treated with this regimen.

OUTLINE: After partial surgical resection of tumor, patients receive induction chemotherapy comprising paclitaxel IV over 3 hours and cyclophosphamide IV over 1 hour on day 1. Patients also receive filgrastim (G-CSF) subcutaneously (SC) daily beginning on day 3 and continuing until peripheral blood stem cell (PBSC) or bone marrow collection is completed.

After the collection of PBSC or bone marrow, patients receive autologous tumor cell vaccine and sargramostim (GM-CSF) SC once every 2 weeks for up to 5 vaccinations. Two weeks after the last vaccination, patients undergo a second leukapheresis to collect lymphocytes.

After completion of the second leukapheresis, patients receive high-dose chemotherapy comprising cisplatin IV continuously over 24 hours on day -5, cyclophosphamide IV over 1 hour on days -5, -4, and -3, and carmustine IV over 2 hours on day -2. Patients undergo autologous bone marrow or PBSC transplantation on day 0. Patients receive G-CSF IV daily beginning on day 0 and continuing until blood counts recover.

Approximately 12 weeks after bone marrow or PBSC transplantation, patients receive autologous lymphocytes IV over 2-5 hours. Patients also receive interleukin-2 IV once every other day for 10 days.

Patients are followed at 18, 24, 36, 40, and 52 weeks.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 30 patients will be accrued for this study.

Being tested
aldesleukin, autologous tumor cell vaccine, filgrastim, sargramostim, therapeutic autologous lymphocytes
Keywords
childhood infratentorial ependymoma, childhood supratentorial ependymoma, childhood central nervous system germ cell tumor, recurrent adult brain tumor, adult brain stem glioma, adult medulloblastoma, adult glioblastoma, childhood high-grade cerebral astrocytoma, adult anaplastic astrocytoma, childhood choroid plexus tumor, childhood grade III meningioma, adult anaplastic ependymoma, adult mixed glioma, adult central nervous system germ cell tumor, adult ependymoblastoma, recurrent childhood brain stem glioma, recurrent childhood supratentorial primitive neuroectodermal tumor, recurrent childhood cerebral astrocytoma, recurrent childhood medulloblastoma, adult choroid plexus tumor
Medical subject headings
Central Nervous System Neoplasms, Brain Neoplasms, Medulloblastoma, Glioblastoma, Astrocytoma, Choroid Plexus Neoplasms, Ependymoma, Glioma

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted5 Apr 2004 (estimated)
  2. Study startAug 1998
  3. Primary completionOct 2004
  4. Study completionOct 2004

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More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase 2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT00014573
Sponsor's protocol ID
CDR0000068559
Other IDs
P30CA022453, WSU-D-1654, WSU-07-92-98-P04-FB, NCI-G01-1937
Status last verified
Apr 2013
First submitted
10 Apr 2001
Last updated
8 Apr 2013
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
No

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A Phase 2 study testing aldesleukin, autologous tumor cell vaccine and filgrastim in people with Brain and Central Nervous System Tumors, run by Barbara Ann Karmanos Cancer Institute at 1 site in United States.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: finished, as of the sponsor's last update on 8 Apr 2013. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 1 site in United States. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

What does this phase mean?

Phase 2 studies give the treatment to a larger group to see whether it has the intended effect and to keep checking safety.

Not every study follows the same path, and some studies (observational studies, device studies) have no phase.

Are results available for this study?

The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

Where can I read the original study information?

On the ClinicalTrials.gov record for NCT00014573.

Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 8 Apr 2013.

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