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Vaccination of Prostate Cancer Patients With MUC-2-KLH Conjugate Plus the Immunological Adjuvant QS21

NCT00698711 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE1 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 15

Last updated 2012-01-31

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this research is to help us study a vaccine treatment for patients with prostate cancer. A vaccine is a medicine that teaches the body to destroy harmful infections and other foreign substances. The immune system is made up of many different types of cells, which fight infection and disease in your body. A vaccine may stimulate the immune system to destroy the cancer cells. It may also help to slow the growth of the cancer. The vaccine is a solution given as an injection given into or under the skin. It is made up of several parts. The first part is MUC-2, a protein present in many cancers, especially prostate cancer. MUC-2 is attached to a material called KLH or keyhole limpet hemocyanin. KLH is purified from a snail- like marine mollusk called a keyhole limpet and has been used for many years to boost immune responses in animals and in people. Attaching MUC-2 to KLH helps the immune system react to MUC-2. The mixture of MUC-2 attached to KLH is in turn mixed with a material called QS21, from the bark of a tree, which also helps the immune system to make more cancer- fighting cells. A vaccine like the one you will receive has been given to laboratory animals and been shown to produce an immune response in these animals.

Conditions

Interventions

BIOLOGICAL

MUC-2-KLH

The MUC-2-KLH conjugate will be administered subcutaneously to random sites on the upper arm and upper leg at weekly intervals for 3 weeks. This will be followed by a 4 week break and then a fourth vaccination during week 7, and 3 months later during week 19. Booster vaccinations may be given at or after week 50 and 100, and every 6 months thereafter to select patients who show no evidence of radiographic disease progression. After 5 patients have been enrolled and completed two vaccinations without Grade II or greater toxicity, we will proceed to the next higher dose level. No dose escalations will be performed in the same patient.

Sponsors & Collaborators

Principal Investigators

  • Susan Slovin, MD,PhD · Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
MALE
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
1997-11-30
Primary Completion
2009-03-31
Completion
2009-03-31

Countries

  • United States

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