Status:
COMPLETED
Phase I/II Study of Vaccination With Antigen Loaded Dendritic Cells (DCs) in Hormone-Refractory Prostate Cancer
Lead Sponsor:
Cantonal Hospital of St. Gallen
Conditions:
Cancer of the Prostate
Eligibility:
MALE
18+ years
Phase:
PHASE1
PHASE2
Brief Summary
The main aim of this trial is to assess the response rate, the feasibility and toxicity of the treatment with antigen loaded Dendritic Cell Vaccination in Prostate Cancer patients. Furthermore we want...
Detailed Description
Dendritic cell (DC)-based immunotherapy is a promising approach to augment tumor antigen-specific T cell responses in cancer patients. However, tumor escape with down-regulation or complete loss of ta...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- histologically or cytologically proven prostatic carcinoma
- proven hormonal resistance: tumor progression after orchiectomy or during treatment with hormonal agents. Patients treated with antiandrogens, such as flutamide (Flucinom) or bicalutamide (Casodex), should have been discontinued the drug 6 weeks prior to the trial entry followed by no tumor response within this 6 weeks
- not amenable to curative therapy
- patients with measurable and non-measurable disease may be included. Bone lesions only are considered to be non-measurable
- two consecutive increases of prostate-specific antigen (PSA) should be documented over a previous reference value (N°1). The first increase in PSA (N°2) should occur a minimum of one week from the reference value and be confirmed (N°3). If this value is less than the previous value, the patient is still eligible if the next PSA(N°4) is found to be higher than the second PSA. Serum levels of prostate-specific antigen must be at least 10 microg/l
- Previous radiotherapy is allowed if it has been stopped 4 weeks or more before the trial treatment and did not involve lesions used to evaluate activity of the trial drugs
- one previous chemotherapy (including Estracyt) is allowed, but the chemotherapy should have been stopped at least 6 weeks before study entry
- age \>18 years
- performance status 0,1,2 (ECOG, Appendix I)
- no concurrent therapy with steroids
- no uncontrolled infections
- live expectancy more than 3 months
- Human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-Type has to be HLA\*A201
- neutrophile count \>1500/microl and thrombocytes \>100 000/microl
- creatinine \<1.5 of upper normal level
- adequate liver function with bilirubin \<2 of upper normal level, alanine aminotransferase (ALAT) and aspartate transamionase (ASAT) \< 3 x upper normal level
- absence of any psychological, familial, sociological or geographical condition potentially hampering compliance with the study protocol and follow-up schedule; those conditions should be discussed with the patient before registration in the trial
- before patient registration/randomization, informed consent must be given according to good clinical practice (GCP), and national/local regulations
Exclusion
- serious concomitant disease (cardiac, pulmonary and others)
- brain metastasis
- previous splenectomy or radiotherapy to the spleen
- concurrent therapy with immunosuppressive drugs
- chronic immunosuppression (includes transplantation or HIV-infection) HIV, hepatitis B virus (HBV), hepatitis C virus (HCV) (test required) or any other severe uncontrolled infection other neoplastic diseases except: curatively treated basal cell or squamous cell carcinoma of the skin or relapse free for more than 5 years after curative treatment of a neoplasm
- treatment with other investigational drugs during the last month
- severe autoimmune disease
- chemotherapy, radiotherapy or immunotherapy less than 6 weeks before study entry
- Ejection fraction (measured by echocardiography) \< 40%
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
November 1 2002
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
October 1 2011
Estimated Enrollment :
15 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT01897207
Start Date
November 1 2002
End Date
October 1 2011
Last Update
August 17 2015
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