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Pilot Immunotherapy Trial for Recurrent Malignant Gliomas

NCT01550523 · Status: COMPLETED · Phase: PHASE1 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 13

Last updated 2025-05-02

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Summary

This human Phase I trial involves taking the patient's own tumor cells during surgical craniotomy, treating them with an investigational new drug (an antisense molecule) designed to shut down a targeted surface receptor protein, and re-implanting the cells, now encapsulated in small diffusion chambers the size of a dime in the patient's abdomen within 24 hours after the surgery. Loss of the surface receptor causes the tumor cells to die in a process called apoptosis. As the tumor cells die, they release small particles called exosomes, each full of tumor antigens. It is believed that these exosomes as well as the presence of the antisense molecule work together to activate the immune system against the tumor as they slowly diffuse out of the chamber. This combination product therefore serves as a slow-release antigen depot. Immune cells are immediately available for activation outside of the chamber because a wound was created to implant these tumor cells and a foreign body (the chamber) is present in the wound. The wound and the chamber fortify the initial immune response which eventually leads to the activation of immune system T cells that attack and eliminate the tumor. By training the immune system to recognize the tumor, the patient is also protected through immune surveillance from later tumor growth should the tumor recur. Compared to the other immunotherapy strategies, this treatment marshalls the native immune system (specifically the antigen presenting cells, or dendritic cells) rather than engineering the differentiation of these immune cells and re-injecting them. Compared to traditional treatment alternatives for tumor recurrence, including a boost of further radiation and more chemotherapy, this treatment represents potentially greater benefit with fewer risks.

This combination product serves as a therapeutic vaccine with an acceptable safety profile, which activates an anti-tumor adaptive immune response resulting in radiographic tumor regression.

Conditions

  • Malignant Glioma of Brain

Interventions

DRUG

IGF-1R/AS ODN

Patients will receive approximately 10 to 20 million IGF-1R/AS ODN treated tumor cells, encapsulated in diffusion chambers (maximum of 10), and re-implanted in the patient's abdomen within 24 hours after the surgery for a 24 hour period.

DEVICE

biodiffusion chamber

The biodiffusion chamber is a simple construct comprised of two Lucite rings sealed on either side with a 0.1u mesh filter (Durapore, the Millipore Corporation). Autologous tumor cells pretreated with the IGF-1R AS ODN and resuspended with 2ug of exogenous IGF-1R AS ODN are added to the chamber. Implantation of the chambers (maximum 10 chambers) occurs 24 hours post surgery for 24 hours.

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center at Thomas Jefferson University

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • David W Andrews, MD · Thomas Jefferson University

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-02-09
Primary Completion
2013-06-25
Completion
2013-06-25
FDA Drug
Yes

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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