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Vaccine Therapy and Sargramostim in Treating Patients With Stage IV Malignant Melanoma

Information source: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
ClinicalTrials.gov processed this data on August 23, 2015
Link to the current ClinicalTrials.gov record.

Condition(s) targeted: Recurrent Melanoma; Stage IV Melanoma

Intervention: tyrosinase peptide (Biological); MART-1:27-35 peptide vaccine (Biological); gp100 antigen (Biological); incomplete Freund's adjuvant (Biological); sargramostim (Biological); laboratory biomarker analysis (Other)

Phase: N/A

Status: Completed

Sponsored by: National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Official(s) and/or principal investigator(s):
Svetomir Markovic, Principal Investigator, Affiliation: Mayo Clinic

Summary

This randomized pilot clinical trial studies vaccine therapy and sargramostim in treating patients with stage IV malignant melanoma. Vaccines made from melanoma peptides or antigens may help the body build an effective immune response to kill tumor cells. Colony-stimulating factors, such as sargramostim, increase the number of white blood cells and platelets found in bone marrow or peripheral blood. Giving vaccine therapy together with sargramostim may be an effective treatment for malignant melanoma

Clinical Details

Official title: Melanoma Vaccines: Differentiation Antigen Peptides (MART-1:27-35, Tyrosinase and Gp-100) as Immune Targets

Study design: Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Treatment

Primary outcome: Changes in tumor antigen peptide specific immune responses

Secondary outcome:

Number and severity of hematologic and non-hematologic toxicities observed using the Common Toxicity Criteria (CTC) version 2.0

Proportion of objective responses (complete response [CR] and partial response [PR]) observed

Detailed description: PRIMARY OBJECTIVES: I. Determine the immunological effects of immunization protocols utilizing MART-1: 27-35 (MART-1: 27-35 peptide vaccine), tyrosinase (tyrosinase peptide) or gp-100 (gp100 antigen) peptides suspended in incomplete Freund's adjuvant (IFA) in the presence of two different concentrations of sargramostim (GM-CSF). II. Define the safety and toxicity profile of an immunization protocol utilizing varying concentrations of MART-1: 27-35, tyrosinase and gp-100 peptides suspended in IFA in the presence of two different concentrations of GM-CSF. III. Collect preliminary data on therapeutic efficacy as it relates to parameters of immune function in patients with stage IV malignant melanoma. OUTLINE: Patients are randomized to 1 of 3 treatment arms. ARM I: Patients receive tyrosinase peptide, MART-1: 27-35 peptide vaccine, and gp100 antigen admixed in incomplete Freund's adjuvant subcutaneously (SC) on day 1 of weeks 0, 3, 6, 9, 12, and 24. ARM II: Patients receive tyrosinase peptide, MART-1: 27-35 peptide vaccine, and gp100 antigen admixed in incomplete Freund's adjuvant SC and lower-dose sargramostim SC on day 1 of weeks 0, 3, 6, 9, 12, and 24. ARM III: Patients receive tyrosinase peptide, MART-1: 27-35 peptide vaccine, and gp100 antigen admixed in incomplete Freund's adjuvant SC and higher-dose sargramostim SC on day 1 of weeks 0, 3, 6, 9, 12, and 24. In all arms, treatment may repeat every 3 months for up to 18 months in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up every 3 months for up to 3 years.

Eligibility

Minimum age: 18 Years. Maximum age: N/A. Gender(s): Both.

Criteria:

Inclusion Criteria:

- Human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-A2 positive

- Histologic proof of stage IV malignant melanoma with measurable disease

- Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) >= 1500

- Platelets (PLT) >= 100,000

- Alkaline phosphatase (Alk phos) =< 3 x upper limit of normal (ULN)

- Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) =< 3 x ULN

- Creatinine (Creat) =< 1. 5 x ULN

- Hemoglobin (Hgb) > 9. 0

- Ability to provide informed consent

- Willingness to return to a Mayo Clinic institution for follow-up

- Life expectancy >= 12 weeks

- Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status 0, 1 or 2

Exclusion Criteria:

- Uncontrolled or current infection

- Prior immunization with differentiation antigen peptides

- Known standard therapy for the patient's disease that is potentially curative or

proven capable of extending life expectancy

- Any of the following prior therapies:

- Chemotherapy =< 4 weeks

- Mitomycin C/nitrosoureas =< 6 weeks

- Immunotherapy =<4 weeks

- Biologic therapy =< 4 weeks

- Radiation therapy =< 4 weeks

- Radiation to > 25% of bone marrow

- Failure to fully recover from effects of prior chemotherapy regardless of interval

since last treatment

- New York Heart Association classification III or IV

- Seizure disorder

- Any of the following:

- Pregnant women

- Nursing women

- Women of childbearing potential or their sexual partners who are unwilling to

employ adequate contraception (condoms, diaphragm, birth control pills, injections, intrauterine device [IUD], surgical sterilization, subcutaneous implants, or abstinence, etc.)

- Other concurrent chemotherapy, immunotherapy, or radiotherapy

- Active psychiatric disorder requiring medications (anti-psychotics)

- Known central nervous system metastases or carcinomatous meningitis

- History of other malignancy in last 5 years with the exception of basal cell or

squamous cell carcinoma of the skin treated with local resection only (it is impossible to predict the effect of study treatment on other, potentially dormant malignant diseases)

- Known immune deficiency (patients with known immune deficiencies will likely not be

able to mount an immune response to the study vaccine)

Locations and Contacts

Mayo Clinic, Rochester, Minnesota 55905, United States
Additional Information

Starting date: October 2000
Last updated: January 24, 2013

Page last updated: August 23, 2015

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