Melanoma (Skin)Phase 2NCT00021164
Vaccine Therapy in Treating Patients With Metastatic Cancer
A Phase 2 study testing aldesleukin, incomplete Freund's adjuvant and telomerase: 540-548 peptide vaccine in people with Melanoma (Skin) and Unspecified Adult Solid Tumor, Protocol Specific, run by National Cancer Institute (NCI) at 1 site in United States.
Trial summary
RATIONALE: Vaccines made from a peptide may make the body build an immune response and kill tumor cells. PURPOSE: Randomized phase II trial to study the effectiveness of vaccine therapy in treating patients who have metastatic cancer. Read more about this study
- Who is it for?
- Ages 16 years and older
- Conditions the study is for
- Melanoma (Skin), Unspecified Adult Solid Tumor, Protocol Specific
- What is being tested?
- aldesleukin, incomplete Freund's adjuvant and telomerase: 540-548 peptide vaccine
- Type of treatment
- Vaccines
- How many people
- Not given
- Where
- 1 siteUnited States
- Study dates
- May 2001to May 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 16 years and older
- All sexes
- No healthy volunteers
- Child, Adult, Older adult
DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:
- Presenting with evaluable metastatic cancer
- Refractory to standard treatment OR
- Post-radiation for malignant glioma
- HLA-A*0201 expression
PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:
Age:
- 16 and over
Performance status:
- ECOG 0-2
Life expectancy:
- More than 3 months
Hematopoietic:
- WBC at least 3,000/mm^3
- Platelet count at least 90,000/mm^3
Hepatic:
- Bilirubin no greater than 1.6 mg/dL
- AST/ALT less than 3 times normal
- Hepatitis B surface antigen negative
Renal:
- Creatinine no greater than 2.0 mg/dL
Cardiovascular:
- No cardiac ischemia by stress thallium or comparable test*
- No prior myocardial infarction*
- No cardiac arrhythmias* NOTE: *Patients receiving interleukin-2 (IL-2) only
Pulmonary:
- No obstructive or restrictive pulmonary disease (patients receiving IL-2 only)
Immunologic:
- HIV negative
- No autoimmune disease or any other known immunodeficiency disease
- No active primary or secondary immunodeficiency
Other:
- No other active major medical illness*
- No active systemic infection
- Not pregnant
- Negative pregnancy test
- Fertile patients must use effective contraception NOTE: *Patients receiving IL-2 only
PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:
Biologic therapy:
- No prior telomerase: 540-548 peptide immunization
Chemotherapy:
- Recovered from prior chemotherapy
Endocrine therapy:
- No requirement for systemic steroid therapy
Radiotherapy:
- See Disease Characteristics
- Recovered from prior radiotherapy
Surgery:
- Not specified
Other:
- At least 3 weeks since prior systemic therapy for cancer
Trial locations and contacts
1 site in 1 country.
United States1 site
Warren Grant Magnuson Clinical Center - NCI Clinical Studies Support
Bethesda, Maryland, 20892-1182
About this study
Official title: Immunization of HLA-A*0201 Patients With Metastatic Cancer Using a Peptide Epitope From the Telomerase Antigen
RATIONALE: Vaccines made from a peptide may make the body build an immune response and kill tumor cells.
PURPOSE: Randomized phase II trial to study the effectiveness of vaccine therapy in treating patients who have metastatic cancer.
Read the detailed description
OBJECTIVES:
- Determine whether an immunologic response can be obtained in HLA*0201-expressing patients with metastatic cancer treated with telomerase: 540-548 peptide vaccine emulsified in Montanide ISA-51.
- Determine which vaccine strategy (frequency, schedule, and dosing) is best for future studies in these patients.
- Determine the toxicity of this treatment in these patients.
- Determine whether prior immunization with telomerase: 540-548 peptide vaccine results in increased clinical response to interleukin-2 in patients with melanoma.
OUTLINE: This is a randomized study. Patients are stratified according to disease (metastatic cutaneous melanoma vs other tumor types). Patients are randomized to one of three treatment arms.
- Arm I: Patients receive telomerase: 540-548 peptide vaccine emulsified in Montanide ISA-51 subcutaneously (SC) on day 1 of weeks 1-4 and 7-10. Patients also undergo leukapheresis over 3 hours at baseline and after each course of treatment.
- Arm II: Patients receive telomerase: 540-548 peptide vaccine emulsified in Montanide ISA-51 SC on day 1 of weeks 1, 4, 7, and 10. Patients also undergo leukapheresis over 3 hours at baseline, after the vaccine on week 4, and after each course of treatment.
- Arm III: Patients receive telomerase: 540-548 peptide vaccine emulsified in Montanide ISA-51 SC on days 1-4 of weeks 1, 4, 7, and 10. Patients undergo leukapheresis as in arm II.
Treatment in all arms repeats every 13 weeks for 4-6 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients with a complete response (CR) receive 1 additional course of treatment after achieving CR.
Eligible melanoma patients with progressive disease on vaccine alone on any of the 3 arms may receive interleukin-2 (IL-2) combined with vaccine as in arm II. Beginning the day after each immunization, IL-2 is administered IV over 15 minutes every 8 hours over 4 days on weeks 1, 4, 7, and 10 for a maximum of 12 doses. Patients continuing to experience disease progression on combined vaccine and IL-2 therapy go off study after 2 courses of combined therapy.
Patients are followed at 3 weeks.
PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 90-162 patients (30-54 per treatment arm; 45-81 per stratum) will be accrued for this study within less than 2 years.
- Being tested
- aldesleukin, incomplete Freund's adjuvant, telomerase: 540-548 peptide vaccine
- Keywords
- stage IV melanoma, recurrent melanoma, unspecified adult solid tumor, protocol specific
- Medical subject headings
- Melanoma
What participants receive
What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.
aldesleukinBiological
incomplete Freund's adjuvantBiological
telomerase: 540-548 peptide vaccineBiological
Timeline
From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.
- First posted27 Jan 2003 (estimated)
- Study startMay 2001
- Study completionMay 2004
Resources
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govThe registry entry this page is built from, with its full change history.
- Other trials for Melanoma (Skin)Studies of the same condition, open and under way.
- More trials run by National Cancer Institute (NCI)The sponsor's other registered studies.
- What the trial phases meanHow a treatment moves from first tests in people to approval.
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
- Randomised
Sponsor and investigators
- Lead sponsor
- National Cancer Institute (NCI)
- Sponsor type
- US National Institutes of Health
- Investigators
- Steven A. Rosenberg, MD, PhD, Study chair, NCI - Surgery Branch
IDs, dates and publications
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT00021164
- Sponsor's protocol ID
- CDR0000068756
- Other IDs
- NCI-01-C-0176, NCI-4970
- Status last verified
- Apr 2004
- First submitted
- 11 Jul 2001
- Last updated
- 19 Jun 2013
- Results posted
- No
Study at a glance
From the registry record, last updated by the sponsor on 19 Jun 2013. Recruitment status is as the sponsor reported it: confirm with the study team.
- Official title
- Immunization of HLA-A*0201 Patients With Metastatic Cancer Using a Peptide Epitope From the Telomerase Antigen
- ClinicalTrials.gov ID
- NCT00021164
- Acronym / sponsor ID
- CDR0000068756
- Keywords
- stage IV melanoma, recurrent melanoma, unspecified adult solid tumor, protocol specific
- Phase
- Phase 2
- Study type
- Interventional
- Recruitment status
- Completed
- Lead sponsor
- National Cancer Institute (NCI)US National Institutes of Health
- Study start
- May 2001
- Study completion
- May 2004 (actual)
- First posted
- 27 Jan 2003 (estimated)
- Results
- Not posted in the source record
Clinical summary
The research question as the sponsor registered it. This describes what the study plans to test, not what it found.
RATIONALE: Vaccines made from a peptide may make the body build an immune response and kill tumor cells.
PURPOSE: Randomized phase II trial to study the effectiveness of vaccine therapy in treating patients who have metastatic cancer.
Detailed description
OBJECTIVES:
- Determine whether an immunologic response can be obtained in HLA*0201-expressing patients with metastatic cancer treated with telomerase: 540-548 peptide vaccine emulsified in Montanide ISA-51.
- Determine which vaccine strategy (frequency, schedule, and dosing) is best for future studies in these patients.
- Determine the toxicity of this treatment in these patients.
- Determine whether prior immunization with telomerase: 540-548 peptide vaccine results in increased clinical response to interleukin-2 in patients with melanoma.
OUTLINE: This is a randomized study. Patients are stratified according to disease (metastatic cutaneous melanoma vs other tumor types). Patients are randomized to one of three treatment arms.
- Arm I: Patients receive telomerase: 540-548 peptide vaccine emulsified in Montanide ISA-51 subcutaneously (SC) on day 1 of weeks 1-4 and 7-10. Patients also undergo leukapheresis over 3 hours at baseline and after each course of treatment.
- Arm II: Patients receive telomerase: 540-548 peptide vaccine emulsified in Montanide ISA-51 SC on day 1 of weeks 1, 4, 7, and 10. Patients also undergo leukapheresis over 3 hours at baseline, after the vaccine on week 4, and after each course of treatment.
- Arm III: Patients receive telomerase: 540-548 peptide vaccine emulsified in Montanide ISA-51 SC on days 1-4 of weeks 1, 4, 7, and 10. Patients undergo leukapheresis as in arm II.
Treatment in all arms repeats every 13 weeks for 4-6 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients with a complete response (CR) receive 1 additional course of treatment after achieving CR.
Eligible melanoma patients with progressive disease on vaccine alone on any of the 3 arms may receive interleukin-2 (IL-2) combined with vaccine as in arm II. Beginning the day after each immunization, IL-2 is administered IV over 15 minutes every 8 hours over 4 days on weeks 1, 4, 7, and 10 for a maximum of 12 doses. Patients continuing to experience disease progression on combined vaccine and IL-2 therapy go off study after 2 courses of combined therapy.
Patients are followed at 3 weeks.
PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 90-162 patients (30-54 per treatment arm; 45-81 per stratum) will be accrued for this study within less than 2 years.
Study design
- Primary purpose
- Treatment
- Allocation
- Randomised
Who may qualify
- Ages
- 16 years and older
- Sex
- All
- Healthy volunteers
- Not accepted
- Age groups
- Child, Adult, Older adult
Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening; this overview does not establish that a patient qualifies. Full inclusion and exclusion criteria.
Interventions
| Intervention | Type | Arms |
|---|---|---|
| aldesleukin | Biological | – |
| incomplete Freund's adjuvant | Biological | – |
| telomerase: 540-548 peptide vaccine | Biological | – |
Primary outcome
Not reported in the source record.
Results and safety
The study is completed, but results are not available in the source record. That does not mean the treatment did or did not work.
Research links
- Official record on ClinicalTrials.govLast updated by the sponsor 19 Jun 2013.
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Referral and contact
AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals. Contact the study team or a site listed below; they decide who can take part. This study is not recruiting at the moment.
Steven A. Rosenberg, MD, PhD study chair
NCI - Surgery Branch
1 site in 1 country: see every site and its status.
Questions about this trial
What is this clinical trial studying?
A Phase 2 study testing aldesleukin, incomplete Freund's adjuvant and telomerase: 540-548 peptide vaccine in people with Melanoma (Skin) and Unspecified Adult Solid Tumor, Protocol Specific, run by National Cancer Institute (NCI) 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 19 Jun 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?
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 19 Jun 2013.