Tumor RNA Transfected Dendritic Cell Vaccines

US Department of Veterans Affairs (VA)

Status and phase: Completed; Phase 1

Conditions: Prostate Cancer

Treatments: Biological: Tumor RNA transfected dendritic cells

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other U.S. Federal agency

Identifiers

NCT00108264

CLIN-021-02S

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to use dendritic cells transfected with amplified RNA from autologous tumor cells to develop a vaccine strategy for the treatment of prostate cancer in patients with disseminated disease.

Full description

The specific aims are: 1) to evaluate, in a phase I clinical trial, the safety of vaccinating patients with dendritic cells transfected with RNA from autologous cancer cells; 2) to analyze the T cell responses induced by the treatment; and 3) to improve the efficacy of the treatment by developing methods to increase the induction of CD4+T cell responses.

Sex: Male

Ages: 10+ years old

Volunteers: No Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Patients with a histologically confirmed diagnosis of metastatic prostate cancer stages D1 - D3 are eligible for this study.
• They must not have a history of autoimmune disease, serious intercurrent chronic or acute illness, pulmonary disease, active hepatitis, serologic evidence for HIV, or be receiving corticosteroid or immunosuppressive therapy.

Exclusion criteria

• Patients will be excluded from the study if they have received chemotherapy or other forms of immunotherapy in the 6 weeks prior to study entry.