Chemotherapy Followed by ESO-1 Lymphocytes and Aldesleukin to Treat Metastatic Cancer

Summary

Background:

-This study uses an experimental cancer treatment that uses the patient s own lymphocytes (type of white blood cell), which are specially selected and genetically modified to target and destroy their tumor.

Objectives:

-To test the safety of the treatment and determine if it can cause the patient s tumor to shrink.

Eligibility:

* Patients greater than 18 years and less than or equal to 66 years of age whose cancer has spread beyond the original site and does not respond to standard treatment.
* Patients have tissue type human leukocyte antigen (HLA)-A\*0201.
* Patients cancer cells have the ESO-1 gene.

Design:

* Workup: Patients have scans, x-rays, laboratory tests, and other tests as needed.
* Patients have leukapheresis to collect cells for laboratory treatment and later reinfusion. For this procedure, whole blood is collected thorough a tube in a vein, the desired cells are extracted from the blood, and the rest of the blood is returned to the patient.
* Chemotherapy: Patients have low-dose chemotherapy for 1 week to prepare the immune system to receive the treated lymphocytes.
* Cell infusion and aldesleukin (IL-2) treatment: Patients receive the lymphocytes by a 30-minute infusion through a vein. Starting within 24 hours of the infusion, they receive high-dose aldesleukin infusions every 8 hours for up to 5 days (maximum15 doses).
* Recovery: Patients rest for 1 to 2 weeks to recover from the effects of chemotherapy and aldesleukin.
* Tumor biopsy: Patients may be asked to undergo a biopsy (surgical removal of a small piece of tumor) after treatment to look at the effects of treatment on the immune cells in the tumor.
* Follow-up: After treatment is completed, patients return to the clinic once a month for several months for physical examinations, a review of side effects, laboratory tests and scans. They may undergo leukapheresis at some visits to look at the effect of treatment on the immune system and check the viability of the infused cells. Patients then return to the National Institute of Health (NIH) clinic once a year for 5 years and then complete a follow-up questionnaire for another 10 years.
* Retreatment: Patients whose tumor shrinks or disappears following treatment and then recurs may receive one additional treatment, using the same regimen of chemotherapy, lymphocyte infusion and IL-2 treatment.

Conditions

• Metastatic Melanoma
• Metastatic Renal Cell Cancer
• Metastatic Cancer

Interventions

BIOLOGICAL

Anti-NY ESO-1 T-cell receptor PBL

Patients will receive non-myeloablative lymphodepleting preparative regimen consisting of cyclophosphamide and fludarabine followed by the administration of anti-NY ESO-1 T-cell receptor (TCR) peripheral blood lymphocytes (PBL) and high dose aldesleukin. On day 0,cells (1x10e8 to 1x10e11)will be infused intravenously on the Patient Care Unit over 20-30 minutes.

DRUG

aldesleukin

Aldesleukin 720,000 IU/kg intravenous (IV) (based on total body weight)over 15 minutes every eight hours (+/- 1 hour) beginning within 24 hours of cell infusion and continuing for up to 5 days(maximum of 15 doses)

DRUG

Cyclophosphamide

Cyclophosphamide 60 mg/kg/day X 2 days IV in 250 ml dextrose 5% in water (D5W) with Mesna 15 mg/kg/day X 2 days over 1 hr.

DRUG

fludarabine phosphate

Fludarabine 25 mg/m2/day intravenous piggyback (IVPB) daily over 30 minutes for 5 days.

BIOLOGICAL

ALVAC NY ESO-1 vaccine

Approximately two hours prior to cell infusion, patients will receive 0.5 mL containing a target dose of 10e7 cell culture infectious dose 50 (CCID50) (with a range of approximately 10e6.4 to 10e7.9 / mL) of the ESO-1 ALVAC virus S.C. in each extremity (total of 4 x 10e7 CCID50/2 mL.

Sponsors & Collaborators

• National Cancer Institute (NCI)

  lead NIH

Principal Investigators

• Steven A Rosenberg, M.D. · National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Study Design

Allocation

NON_RANDOMIZED

Purpose

TREATMENT

Masking

NONE

Model

PARALLEL

Eligibility

Min Age

18 Years

Max Age

66 Years

Sex

ALL

Healthy Volunteers

No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start

2008-05-29

Primary Completion

2016-06-29

Completion

2016-06-29

FDA Drug

Yes

Countries

• United States

Study Locations