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Brain and Central Nervous System TumorsPhase 2NCT00621036

Vaccine Therapy and GM-CSF in Treating Patients With CNS Lymphoma

A Phase 2 study testing autologous immunoglobulin idiotype-KLH conjugate vaccine, sargramostim and methotrexate in people with Brain and Central Nervous System Tumors and Lymphoma, run by University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center at 1 site in United States.

Withdrawn

Withdrawn. The study stopped before anyone enrolled.

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Trial summary

RATIONALE: Vaccines made from a person's cancer proteins may help the body build an effective immune response to kill cancer cells. Colony-stimulating factors, such as GM-CSF, may increase the number of immune cells found in bone marrow or peripheral blood. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 to 120 years
What is being tested?
autologous immunoglobulin idiotype-KLH conjugate vaccine, sargramostim and methotrexate
Type of treatment
Vaccines, Surgery or procedure
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
0 participants
Where
1 siteUnited States
Study dates
19 Oct 2007to 8 Dec 2008
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 18 to 120 years
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

  • Histologically or CSF cytologically confirmed CNS lymphoma with any of the following clinical histories:
  • Primary CNS lymphoma at initial diagnosis
  • Primary CNS lymphoma at relapse
  • Systemic lymphoma with CNS disease at initial diagnosis or at relapse
  • Adequate fresh tissue or cell pellet available for analysis by Genitope Corporation to determine adequacy for idiotype (Id) manufacturing
  • Tumor must express both functional light and heavy chain genes
  • No tumors known or found to be surface immunoglobulin negative
  • Not in leukemic phase (i.e., > 5,000/mm³ circulating tumor cells)

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

  • ECOG performance status (PS) 0-2 OR Karnofsky PS 70-100%
  • WBC ≥ 1,500/mm³
  • Platelet count ≥ 75,000/mm³
  • Hemoglobin ≥ 10 g/dL
  • Serum bilirubin ≤ 1.5 times upper limit of normal (ULN) (unless due to Gilbert's disease)
  • Creatinine ≤ 1.5 times ULN
  • Able to undergo placement of an Ommaya reservoir
  • Able to receive induction therapy (chemotherapy with or without brain radiotherapy) with intent to induce remission
  • Speaks English or Spanish
  • No other malignancy within the past 3 years, except adequately treated basal cell or squamous cell carcinoma of the skin or cervical carcinoma in situ
  • Not pregnant or nursing
  • No immunosuppressive viral infections as evidenced by HIV antibody or antigen, hepatitis B antigen, or hepatitis C antibody or antigen positivity
  • No history of autoimmune disease that required treatment within the past 5 years, including previously treated autoimmune hemolytic anemia or immune thrombocytopenia

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

  • More than 30 days since prior and no concurrent participation in another therapeutic clinical trial
  • More than 2 weeks since prior steroids
  • No concurrent immunosuppressives, including corticosteroids
  • Transient use of optical or nasal steroid solutions is allowed
  • No other concurrent anticancer therapy or therapy for non-Hodgkin lymphoma

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

United States1 site
  • Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center at University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center - Dallas

    Dallas, Texas, 75390

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About this study

Official title: A Phase 2, Open-Label Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of Patient-Specific Immunotherapy, Recombinant Idiotype Conjugated to KLH (Id-KLH) and Administered With GM-CSF, in Patients With CNS Lymphoma

RATIONALE: Vaccines made from a person's cancer proteins may help the body build an effective immune response to kill cancer cells. Colony-stimulating factors, such as GM-CSF, may increase the number of immune cells found in bone marrow or peripheral blood. Giving vaccine therapy together with GM-CSF may make a stronger immune response and kill more cancer cells.

PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying the side effects and how well giving vaccine therapy together with GM-CSF works in treating patients with CNS lymphoma.

Read the detailed description

OBJECTIVES:

Primary

  • To determine the proportion of patients with CNS lymphoma who develop anti-idiotype (Id) and anti-keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH) humoral immune responses in the serum and/or CSF following patient-specific immunotherapy comprising recombinant tumor-derived immunoglobulin Id-KLH conjugate vaccine and sargramostim (GM-CSF).
  • To assess the safety and tolerability of this regimen in these patients.

Secondary

  • To evaluate the progression-free survival (PFS) of patients treated with this regimen.
  • To determine the time to receipt of first subsequent anti-lymphoma therapy after initiating immunization with the Id-KLH conjugate vaccine.
  • To assess the correlation of anti-Id immune response in the CSF and/or serum with PFS and overall survival.

Tertiary

  • To evaluate the kinetics of humoral immune response development in patients treated with this regimen.

OUTLINE:

  • Pre-immunotherapy: Patients submit a tumor sample for manufacturing of the idiotype (Id)-keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH) conjugate vaccine and undergo placement of an Ommaya reservoir. Patients then receive induction therapy comprising methotrexate IV once every 2 weeks until a maximum radiographic response is achieved, as assessed by MRI of the brain. Patients then receive methotrexate IV once a month for 6 months. Patients with leptomeningeal or CSF involvement also receive intraventricular thiotepa twice a week until the CSF is clear on three evaluations and then once a week until the CSF is clear on four evaluations. Patients under 55 years of age also undergo whole brain radiotherapy (or craniospinal radiotherapy when extensive leptomeningeal disease is present). Patients who achieve a stable response to induction therapy proceed to immunotherapy.
  • Immunotherapy: Patients receive recombinant tumor-derived immunoglobulin Id-KLH conjugate vaccine subcutaneously (SC) on day 1 of weeks 0, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 12, 16, 20, 24, 28, 32, 36, 40, 44, 48, 52, 56, 60, 64, 68, 72, and 76. Patients also receive sargramostim (GM-CSF) SC on days 1-4 of the same weeks as the Id-KLH conjugate vaccine.

After completion of therapy, patients are followed periodically for up to 2 years.

Being tested
autologous immunoglobulin idiotype-KLH conjugate vaccine, sargramostim, methotrexate, thiotepa, radiation therapy
Keywords
primary central nervous system non-Hodgkin lymphoma, primary central nervous system Hodgkin lymphoma, stage IV adult T-cell leukemia/lymphoma, adult nasal type extranodal NK/T-cell lymphoma, anaplastic large cell lymphoma, angioimmunoblastic T-cell lymphoma, extranodal marginal zone B-cell lymphoma of mucosa-associated lymphoid tissue, stage IV adult Burkitt lymphoma, stage IV adult diffuse large cell lymphoma, stage IV adult diffuse mixed cell lymphoma, stage IV adult diffuse small cleaved cell lymphoma, stage IV adult Hodgkin lymphoma, stage IV adult immunoblastic large cell lymphoma, stage IV adult lymphoblastic lymphoma, stage IV cutaneous T-cell non-Hodgkin lymphoma, stage IV mycosis fungoides/Sezary syndrome, stage IV grade 1 follicular lymphoma, stage IV grade 2 follicular lymphoma, stage IV grade 3 follicular lymphoma, stage IV mantle cell lymphoma
Medical subject headings
Central Nervous System Neoplasms, Lymphoma, Lymphoproliferative Disorders, Precursor T-Cell Lymphoblastic Leukemia-Lymphoma, Lymphoma, Extranodal NK-T-Cell, Lymphoma, Large-Cell, Anaplastic, Immunoblastic Lymphadenopathy, Burkitt Lymphoma

What participants receive

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

Study groups in NCT00621036
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
methotrexate IV once every 2 weeksExperimentalNot described
Receives: Biological: autologous immunoglobulin idiotype-KLH conjugate vaccine; Biological: sargramostim; Drug: methotrexate; Drug: thiotepa; Radiation: radiation therapy

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Anti-idiotype (Id) and anti-keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH) immune response rate in the CSF

  2. Safety and tolerability

Secondary outcomes (4)
  1. Progression-free survival (PFS)

  2. Time to receipt of first subsequent anti-lymphoma therapy after initiating immunization with the Id-KLH conjugate vaccine

  3. Correlation of anti-Id immune response in the CSF and/or serum with PFS and overall survival

  4. Kinetics of humoral immune response development

Timeline

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

  1. First posted22 Feb 2008 (estimated)
  2. Study start19 Oct 2007
  3. Primary completion8 Dec 2008
  4. Study completion8 Dec 2008

Why it stopped: MyVax did not meet its primary endpoints

Resources

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)
Enrolment
0 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT00621036
Sponsor's protocol ID
SCCC-02F07
Other IDs
SCCC-102007-035, CDR0000587504
Status last verified
Nov 2018
First submitted
21 Feb 2008
Last updated
26 Nov 2018
Results posted
No

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A Phase 2 study testing autologous immunoglobulin idiotype-KLH conjugate vaccine, sargramostim and methotrexate in people with Brain and Central Nervous System Tumors and Lymphoma, run by University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center 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: withdrawn, as of the sponsor's last update on 26 Nov 2018. 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 was withdrawn before enrolling participants, so there are no results.

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.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Anti-idiotype (Id) and anti-keyhole limpet hemocyanin (KLH) immune response rate in the CSF. The study lists 2 primary outcomes in all. It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

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 26 Nov 2018.

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