Status:

COMPLETED

Vaccine Therapy in Treating Patients With Malignant Glioma

Lead Sponsor:

Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center

Collaborating Sponsors:

National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Conditions:

Brain and Central Nervous System Tumors

Eligibility:

All Genders

18+ years

Phase:

PHASE1

Brief Summary

RATIONALE: Vaccines made from peptides and a person's dendritic cells may help the body build an effective immune response to kill tumor cells. PURPOSE: This phase I trial is studying the side effect...

Detailed Description

OBJECTIVES: * Determine the dose-limiting toxicity and maximum tolerated dose of autologous dendritic cells pulsed with synthetic glioma-associated antigen (GAA) peptides in patients with malignant g...

Eligibility Criteria

Inclusion

  • Histologically confirmed diagnosis of 1 of the following malignant gliomas:
  • Anaplastic astrocytoma
  • Glioblastoma multiforme
  • Oligodendroglioma
  • Oligoastrocytoma
  • WHO grade III or IV disease
  • Newly diagnosed or recurrent disease
  • Bidimensionally measurable disease by contrast-enhancing MRI
  • Surgically accessible tumor for which resection is indicated
  • Previously treated with or planning to undergo treatment with conventional external beam radiotherapy
  • HLA-A\*201 positive
  • Karnofsky performance status 60-100%
  • Life expectancy ≥ 8 weeks
  • Hemoglobin ≥ 10 g/dL
  • Absolute granulocyte count ≥ 1,500/mm³
  • Platelet count ≥ 100,000/mm³
  • SGOT and SGPT ≤ 2 times normal
  • Alkaline phosphatase ≤ 2 times normal
  • Bilirubin ≤ 1.5 mg/dL
  • BUN ≤ 1.5 times normal OR creatinine ≤ 1.5 times normal
  • Negative pregnancy test
  • Fertile patients must use effective contraception
  • Hepatitis B negative
  • Hepatitis C negative
  • HIV negative
  • Syphilis serology negative
  • Afebrile

Exclusion

  • active infection
  • immunodeficiency
  • autoimmune disease that may be exacerbated by immunotherapy, including any of the following:
  • Rheumatoid arthritis
  • Systemic lupus erythematosus
  • Vasculitis
  • Polymyositis-dermatomyositis
  • Scleroderma
  • Multiple sclerosis
  • Juvenile-onset insulin-dependent diabetes
  • allergy to study agents
  • underlying condition that would contraindicate study therapy
  • concurrent severe or unstable medical condition that would preclude giving informed consent
  • psychiatric condition that would preclude study participation or giving informed consent
  • other malignancy within the past 5 years except adequately treated basal cell or squamous cell skin cancer, localized prostate cancer, or carcinoma in situ of the cervix
  • prior chemotherapy (6 weeks for nitrosoureas) within last 4 weeks of starting treatment
  • concurrent corticosteroids within 2 weeks prior to treatment
  • radiotherapy within 2 weeks prior to treatment
  • systemic antibiotics within 72 hours prior to treatment
  • prior organ allograft
  • antihistamine therapy within 5 days before or after administration of study vaccine
  • chemotherapy during and for 4 weeks after administration of study vaccine
  • adjuvant therapy during and for 4 weeks after administration of study vaccine
  • other concurrent investigational agents

Key Trial Info

Start Date :

May 1 2006

Trial Type :

INTERVENTIONAL

Allocation :

ACTUAL

End Date :

October 1 2012

Estimated Enrollment :

8 Patients enrolled

Trial Details

Trial ID

NCT00612001

Start Date

May 1 2006

End Date

October 1 2012

Last Update

October 5 2015

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Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center at UCLA

Los Angeles, California, United States, 90095-1781