Status:
COMPLETED
Dose Escalation Study to Evaluate Safety and Tolerability of an Allogeneic Tumor Vaccine BIWB 2 in Patients With Advanced Malignant Melanoma
Lead Sponsor:
Boehringer Ingelheim
Conditions:
Melanoma
Eligibility:
All Genders
18+ years
Phase:
PHASE1
Brief Summary
Evaluation of safety and tolerability of four intradermal injections given at two week intervals. In addition the efficacy of transferrinfection was determined by quantifying Interleukin 2 (IL-2), whi...
Eligibility Criteria
Inclusion
- Patients who fail to respond to conventional therapy or for whom conventional therapy is not available
- Metastatic melanoma (stage IV AJCC) which is surgically or medically incurable because of distant metastatic disease (i.e., a metastasis not in the same lymph node draining area as the primary malignant melanoma). Histologic confirmation of stage IV is required. Measurable disease that can be routinely assessed by physical examination and/or non-invasive radiological procedures
- Karnofsky performance status is at least 60% and life expectancy greater than 4 months
- Male or female, minimum age 18 years
- Written informed consent of the patient in accordance with good clinical practice and local legislation
- Availability of material for autologous Delayed Type Hypersensitivity (DTH) testing (material derived from autologous melanoma metastases and in-house preparation successful) is a requisite for entering the study
- Patients have to undergo biopsy of at least one metastasis before the first and after the last vaccination
Exclusion
- Patient who have received any chemotherapy, corticosteroids, radiotherapy (stereotactic irradiation permitted), immunotherapy (e.g. Granulocyte Macrophage Colony Stimulating Factor, Granulocyte Colony Stimulating Factor) or any other investigational drugs in the 4 weeks prior to the first vaccination or prior to surgical removal of tumor specimens for DTH material preparation (patients are not permitted to receive such therapies 4 weeks prior to first cell inoculation except of tumor reductive surgery which are medically indicated)
- Patients with active intracranial metastases (CT/MRI) or choroidal melanoma
- Patients with active autoimmune disease
- Patients with organ allografts
- Patients with evidence of one or more of the following infections: HIV-1, HIV-2, Hepatitis B Virus, Hepatitis C Virus, Human T lymphotropic Virus-1
- Patients with active systemic infections or other major medical illness of the cardiovascular organ system \[e.g. coronary heart disease (New York Heart Association class III or IV), history of clinically significant ventricular arrhythmias or angina\], coagulation disorder, respiratory or nervous system disorder or with severe endocrinological disease
- Women of childbearing potential with a positive pregnancy test or without appropriate contraception (e.g. IUD \[ Intra-Uterine Device\], oral contraceptives) until at least 28 days after the last vaccination
- Lactating women
- Impaired renal or hepatic function (serum creatinine \> 1.5 mg/dl or creatinine clearance \< 75 ml/min). In amendments 1 and 3 serum creatinine levels were changed to 2.5 mg/dl and creatinine clearance was reduced to 30 ml/min
- Impaired hematologic function with:
- White Blood Count (WBC) \< 2500/mm\*\*3 or
- absolute lymphocyte count \< 1500/mm\*\*3 or
- hemoglobin \< 8 g/dl or
- platelets \< 100,000/mm\*\*3
- Evidence for the existence or history of other malignant neoplasms (except adequately treated basal cell carcinoma and carcinoma in situ of the cervix)
Key Trial Info
Start Date :
August 1 1998
Trial Type :
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation :
ACTUAL
End Date :
Estimated Enrollment :
49 Patients enrolled
Trial Details
Trial ID
NCT02203864
Start Date
August 1 1998
Last Update
July 31 2014
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