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Phase 2 N=32 Treatment

Vaccine Therapy in Treating Patients With Stage I, Stage II, or Stage III Non-small Cell Lung Cancer

Lung Cancer

Enrolled (actual)
32
Serious AEs
0.0%
Results posted
Apr 2017
Primary outcome: Primary: Number of Participants Showing Immunologic Response to Vaccine Within Six Months of Immunization — 22 participants with immunological response

Study Design & Population

Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase 2
Interventions
autologous dendritic cell cancer vaccine (Biological)
Age
Adult, Older Adult · 18+ yrs
Sex
All
Sponsor
Edward Hirschowitz
Primary completion
Apr 2008

Outcome Measures

OutcomeResultp-value
PRIMARY
Number of Participants Showing Immunologic Response to Vaccine Within Six Months of Immunization
22
SECONDARY
Number of Participants Alive Five Years Post Vaccine
20

Summary

RATIONALE: Vaccines made from a person's white blood cells and allogeneic tumor cells may make the body build an effective immune response to kill tumor cells. PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying how well vaccine therapy works in treating patients with stage I, stage II, or stage III non-small cell lung cancer.

Eligibility Criteria

DISEASE CHARACTERISTICS:

  • Histologically confirmed non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC)
  • Meets 1 of the following stage criteria:
  • Completely resected stage I-IIIB disease
  • Underwent surgical resection > 4 weeks but ≤ 4 years ago
  • Unresectable stage IIIA or IIIB disease AND previously treated with definitive radiotherapy or chemotherapy > 6 weeks ago
  • Bronchoalveolar carcinomas allowed
  • Clinically stable disease by chest x-ray or CT scan within the past 6 weeks
  • No progressive disease
  • No malignant pleural or pericardial effusions

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

Age

  • 18 to 80

Performance status

  • ECOG 0-1

Life expectancy

  • Not specified

Hematopoietic

  • Hemoglobin ≥ 9.0 g/dL

Hepatic

  • Bilirubin ≤ 2.5 times upper limit of normal (ULN)
  • AST and ALT ≤ 2.5 times ULN
  • No known history of infectious hepatitis

Renal

  • Creatinine ≤ 3 mg/dL
  • Ionized calcium ≥ 0.9 mmol/L (may be replaced)

Cardiovascular

  • No known New York Heart Association class III-IV congestive heart failure
  • No hemodynamically significant valvular heart disease
  • No myocardial infarction within the past 6 months
  • No active angina pectoris
  • No uncontrolled ventricular arrhythmia
  • No stroke within the past year
  • No known cerebrovascular disease
  • No other significant cardiac disease by echocardiogram, stress test, or risk assessment by cardiologist (for patients suspected of cardiac disease by history or physical exam)

Immunologic

  • No known HIV positivity
  • No other immunosuppressive disorders, including chronic disorders

Other

  • Not pregnant
  • Negative pregnancy test
  • Potassium ≥ 3.0 mEq/L (may be replaced)
  • Able to tolerate modest blood volume and electrolyte shifts during leukapheresis
  • No other malignancy

PRIOR CONCURRENT THERAPY:

Biologic therapy

  • Prior biologic therapy allowed
  • Other concurrent biologic therapy allowed

Chemotherapy

  • See Disease Characteristics
  • No concurrent chemotherapy

Endocrine therapy

  • No concurrent steroids during and for 16 weeks after study treatment

Radiotherapy

  • See Disease Characteristics
  • No concurrent radiotherapy

Surgery

  • See Disease Characteristics

Other

  • Prior neoadjuvant or adjuvant therapy for surgically resected patients allowed
  • No concurrent shorter courses of immunosuppressive medications during and for 16 weeks after study treatment
  • No concurrent chronic immunosuppressive medications
  • Concurrent cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitors allowed
View full record on ClinicalTrials.gov →

Data sourced from ClinicalTrials.gov (NCT00103116). Outcome figures and adverse-event rates are extracted automatically from the registry's posted results and are provided for clinician reference, not as a substitute for the primary publication.

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