T Cell Transfer With or Without Dendritic Cell Vaccination in Patients With Melanoma

Study Purpose

The purpose of this study is to learn if dendritic cell vaccine will increase the effect of tumor infiltrating lymphocytes given with chemotherapy and interleukin-2 in patients with melanoma.

Recruitment Criteria

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

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No
Study Type

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Interventional
Eligible Ages 18 Years - 74 Years
Gender All
More Inclusion & Exclusion Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

  • - Patients with measurable (direct on body surface or by x-ray and/or CT) malignant melanoma (including uveal melanoma), that is advanced, inoperable stage III (advanced regional lymph node metastases, or more than 5 in-transit metastases, N2) or stage IV (distant metastasis, M1) according to the AJCC classification and confirmed by histology/cytology and appropriate radiological investigations.
  • - Patients with a palpable resectable lesion located in the skin or in a lymph node or a lesion accessible by (core) biopsy.
  • - Disease should be in progression and the patient should have exhausted other approved therapeutic options, if not the physician considers that an earlier study entry benefits the patient.
  • - Ambulatory performance status (ECOG 0, 1, 2).
  • - Age 18-74 and life expectancy greater than 3 months.

Exclusion Criteria:

  • - Any of the above criteria are not met.
  • - Significant history or current evidence of cardiovascular disease (e.g. uncontrolled congestive heart failure or hypertension, unstable coronary artery disease or serious arrhythmias) or major respiratory diseases.
In questionable cases, a stress test should be performed.
  • - Recipients of a major organ allograft.
Autoimmune diseases such as, but not limited to, inflammatory bowel disease or multiple sclerosis. Vitiligo is not an exclusion criterion. Other serious chronic diseases.
  • - Other serious illnesses, e.g. active infections requiring antibiotics, bleeding disorders.
  • - Has had prior systemic cancer therapy within the past four weeks at the time of the start of the lymphodepletion regimen.
  • - Patients diagnosed with prior malignancies (except adequately treated basal cell carcinomas of the skin or in situ carcinomas of the skin or in situ carcinomas of the cervix, surgically cured) within the past 5 years.
  • - Patients with second advanced malignancies concurrently.
  • - Active CNS metastases.
(Note: Patients with brain metastases that have been completely resected at least one month prior to registration or have undergone gamma knife treatment with no evidence of recurrence on CT and who are neurologically stable, are not excluded).
  • - Organic brain syndrome or significant psychiatric disorder which would preclude participation in the full protocol and follow-up.
  • - Immunodeficiency, previous splenectomy or radiation therapy of the spleen.
  • - Screening laboratory values: a) Inadequate hematologic function defined by: i) White blood count (WBC) <3.0 x 109/l ii) Platelet count <100x109/l iii) Hemoglobin level <100 g/l b) Inadequate hepatic function as defined by either: i) Total bilirubin level >1.5 times the upper limit of normal (ULN) ii) Aspartate amino transferase (AST) or alanine amino transferase (ALT) >3 times the ULN (if related to liver metastases >5 times the ULN) c) Inadequate renal function defined as serum creatinine >1.5 times the ULN.
  • - Infectious diseases that can be transmitted via contact with blood, such as HIV, Hepatitis B and C.
  • - Women who are pregnant or nursing will be excluded because of the potentially dangerous effects of the preparative chemotherapy on the fetus.

Trial Details

Trial ID:

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NCT01946373
Phase

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Phase 1
Lead Sponsor

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Karolinska University Hospital
Principal Investigator

The person who is responsible for the scientific and technical direction of the entire clinical study.

Maria Wolodarski, MD
Principal Investigator Affiliation Karolinska University Hospital
Agency Class

Category of organization(s) involved as sponsor (and collaborator) supporting the trial.

Other
Overall Status Recruiting
Countries Sweden
Conditions

The disease, disorder, syndrome, illness, or injury that is being studied.

Melanoma
Additional Details

The MAT02 clinical trial is a phase 1 clinical trial with the objective to assess the safety, feasibility and immunological efficacy of the combined application of two immunological treatment modalities in patients with metastatic melanoma: 1. Cohort A: After a non-myeloablative conditioning regimen, 5 patients will receive one bulk infusion of T cells. T cells will be expanded ex vivo from autologous tumor infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL). In vivo persistence of the infused cells will be supported by administration of IL-2, a T cell survival factor. 2. Cohort B: This adoptive cell transfer (ACT) step will in additional 10 patients be followed by a vaccination with autologous, in vitro-generated, dendritic cells (DC), loaded with autologous tumor lysate and a synthetically produced peptide derived from the tumor associated antigen NY-ESO 1.

Arms & Interventions

Arms

Experimental: Chemotherapy + T cells + IL-2

Cyclophosphamide 60 mg/kg/d by vein (IV) daily for 2 days followed by fludarabine 25 mg/m^2 IV daily for 5 days before T cell infusion. The day after chemotherapy up to 5 x 10^10 T cells IV infusion. Interleukin-2 90 minutes after T cell infusion at a dose of 100,000 IU/kg as IV bolus over 15 minute period every 8-hours for up to 14 doses.

Experimental: Chemotherapy + T cells + IL-2 + DCV

Cyclophosphamide 60 mg/kg/d by vein (IV) daily for 2 days followed by fludarabine 25 mg/m^2 IV daily for 5 days before T cell infusion. The day after chemotherapy up to 5 x 10^10 T cells IV infusion. Interleukin-2 90 minutes after T cell infusion at a dose of 100,000 IU/kg as IV bolus over 15 minute period every 8-hours for up to 14 doses. After completion of the IL-2 treatment 3-5 doses of weekly intradermal vaccinations with up to 1.5 x 10^7 Dendritic cells pulsed with autologous tumor lysate and NY-ESO-1 peptide.

Interventions

Drug: - Cyclophosphamide

Drug: - Fludarabine

Biological: - T cells

Biological: - Interleukin-2

Biological: - Dendritic cell vaccine

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International Sites

Karolinska University Hospital, Stockholm, Sweden

Status

Recruiting

Address

Karolinska University Hospital

Stockholm, , SE-171 76

Site Contact

Maria Wolodarski, MD

[email protected]

+46851770000

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