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NCT number NCT01479244
Other study ID # NeuVax™ PH3-01, BB-IND 009187
Secondary ID 2011-005219-98
Status Completed
Phase Phase 3
First received November 20, 2011
Last updated February 23, 2017
Start date November 2011
Est. completion date September 21, 2016

Study information

Verified date February 2017
Source Galena Biopharma, Inc.
Contact n/a
Is FDA regulated No
Health authority
Study type Interventional

Clinical Trial Summary

Purpose of this trial:

1. To assess the efficacy and safety of NeuVax™ administered with adjuvant Leukine® (sargramostim, GM-CSF).

2. To evaluate and compare the disease free survival (DFS) in the vaccinated and control subjects.


Description:

This is a multicenter, multinational, prospective, randomized, double-blind, controlled Phase 3 study.

The subjects eligible for this trial have an early stage node-positive breast cancer. Their tumors express low or intermediate levels of the HER2 protein. NeuVax™ will be administered after completion of front-line, standard of care therapy (surgery, radiation therapy, and chemotherapy) and can be given concomitantly with physician prescribed endocrine treatment.

NeuVax™ is the immmunodominant nonapeptide derived from the extracellular domain of the HER2 protein, a well-established target for therapeutic intervention in breast carcinoma. The nelipepimut sequence stimulates specific CD8+ cytotoxic T lymphocytes (CTL) following binding to HLA-A2/A3 molecules on antigen presenting cells (APC). These activated specific CTLs recognize, neutralize and destroy through cell lysis HER2 expressing cancer cells, including occult cancer cells and micrometastatic foci. The nelipepimut immune response can also generate CTLs to other immunogenic peptides through inter- and intra-antigenic epitope spreading. Based on a successful Phase 2 trial, which achieved its primary endpoint of DFS, the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) granted NeuVax a Special Protocol Assessment (SPA) for its Phase 3 PRESENT (Prevention of Recurrence in Early-Stage, Node-Positive Breast Cancer with Low to Intermediate HER2 Expression with NeuVax Treatment) study.

The active portion of the study will last three years (36 months). The follow-up will last from 5 to 10 years.

Endpoints:

1. Primary efficacy endpoint:

- 3-year DFS

2. Secondary efficacy endpoints:

- 5- and 10-year DFS

- 3-year OS

- 5- and 10-year OS

- Safety profile, and adverse events (AEs)

- Patterns of recurrence to include Time to recurrence (TTR), time to local recurrence (TTLR), time to distant recurrence (TTDR), time to bone metastases (TTBM)

Safety Assessments:

Subjects will be assessed at every study visit for the safety endpoints, AEs,vital signs, physical examinations and laboratory data; yearly follow-up of survival will include imaging studies, ECGs, MUGA or ECHO scans and concomitant medications.


Recruitment information / eligibility

Status Completed
Enrollment 758
Est. completion date September 21, 2016
Est. primary completion date September 21, 2016
Accepts healthy volunteers No
Gender Female
Age group 18 Years and older
Eligibility Key Inclusion Criteria:

- Pathological diagnosis of invasive adenocarcinoma of the breast

- Breast cancer completely excised, or patient receiving neoadjuvant therapy prior to surgery

- One of these 2 surgical treatments and axillary staging with sentinel lymph node dissection or axillary dissection level I/II:

1. Total mastectomy-patients with a positive sentinel lymph node must have undergone a completion axillary dissection level I/II

2. BCS (lumpectomy)-patients with a positive sentinel lymph node must have undergone a completion axillary dissection level I/II unless they had clinically node negative T1-T2 tumors and fewer than 3 involved lymph nodes

- Node-positive disease

- Primary tumor stage T1-3 at initial diagnosis

- HER2 negative (HER2 1+ by IHC or HER2 2+ by IHC/FISH)

- HLA-A2 or HLA-A3 haplotype

- Completed NCCN approved neo-adjuvant/adjuvant chemotherapy or both

- Completed radiation therapy

- No evidence of disease

- Able and willing (or have legal representative) to understand the study and provide consent

Key Exclusion Criteria:

- Bilateral breast malignancy or suspicious mass in opposite breast

- Inflammatory breast malignancy

- History of prior breast cancer, ductal carcinoma in situ

- Prior trastuzumab therapy

- New York Heart Association Stage 3 or 4 cardiac disease

- Sensory/motor neuropathy = Grade 2

- Autoimmune diseases or immune deficiency disease

- Subjects on chronic steroid therapy, other immunosuppressive therapy

Study Design


Intervention

Biological:
NeuVax™ vaccine
E75 peptide acetate (HER2/neu p366-379) in WFI (1.5 mg/mL) mixed with 250 micrograms Leukine® (sargramostim, GM-CSF), will be administered in intradermal injections, in four divided doses (4 sites on upper thigh) once a month, for six consecutive months. At the end of the six months, NeuVax™ vaccine boosters will be given the same way once every six months for the next five times (totaling 36 months).
Leukine® (sargramostim, GM-CSF) and water for injection
Leukine® 250 micrograms in water for injection, will be administered in intradermal injections, in four divided doses (4 sites on upper thigh) once a month, for six consecutive months. At the end of the six months, boosters inoculations will be given the same way once every six months for the next five times (totaling 36 months).

Locations

Country Name City State
Bulgaria Central Onco Hospital Plovdiv
Bulgaria Serdika Sofia
Bulgaria Tsaritsa Yoanna - ISUL Sofia
Bulgaria Complex Oncology Center, Veliko Tarnovo Tarnovo
Bulgaria Sveta Marina Varna
Canada Cross Cancer Institute Edmonton Alberta
Canada Hospital Charles LeMorne Greenfield Park Quebec
Canada Ottawa Hospital Cancer Centre Ottawa Ontario
Canada Health Sciences North Cancer Centre Sudbury Ontario
Canada Sunnybrook Research Institute Toronto Ontario
Czech Republic Masaryk Memorial Cancer Institute, Comprehensive Cancer Care Clinic Brno
Czech Republic University Hospital Hradec Kralove, Clinic of Oncology and Radiotherapy Hradec Kralove
Czech Republic University Hospital Olomouc, Clinic of Oncology Olomouc
Czech Republic General University Hospital in Prague, Clinic of Oncology Prague 2
France Institut de Cancérologie de l'Ouest Siet Paul Papin Angers Cedex 9
France Centre Oscar Lambret Cédex Lille
France Centre Antoine Lacassagne Nice
France Institut de Cancérologie de l'Ouest/René Gauducheau St Herblain, Nantes Cedex Loire-Atlantique
Germany Charité Campus Mitte Universitaetsmedizin-Berlin Brustzentrum/Studienzentrum Berlin
Germany Brustzentrum Klinikum Bremen-Mitte gGmbH Bremen
Germany Universitätsklinikum Erlangen, Frauenklinik Erlangen
Germany Kliniken Essen Mitte, Evang. Huyssens Stiftung/Knappschaft GmbH, Klinik für Senologie/Brustzentrum Essen
Germany Universitätsklinikum Frankfurt, Klinik für Frauenheilkunde und Geburtshilfe Frankfurt
Germany Nationales Centrum für Tumorerkrankungen (NCT), Gynäkologische Onkologie Heidelberg
Germany Universitätsklinikum Schleswig-Holstein, Campus Kiel Kiel
Germany Universität Marburg Marburg
Germany Rotkreuzklinikum München gGmbH, Frauenklinik Muenchen
Germany Universitätsklinikum Münster, Klinik und Poliklinik für Frauenheilkunde und Geburtshilfe Münster
Germany Klinikum Stuttgart, Krankenhaus Bad Cannstatt, Frauenklinik Stuttgart
Germany Klinikum Mutterhaus der Borromaeerinnen Trier
Germany Gemeinschaftspraxis für Innere Medizin, Haematologie und internistische Onkologie Dr. R Schlag/Dr. Schoettker Wuerzburg
Hungary Semmelweis University, Department of Diagnostic Radiology and Oncotherapy Budapest
Hungary Szent Margit Hospital, V. Department of Internal Medicine, Oncology Budapest
Hungary Petz Aladar County Teaching Hospital, Center for Oncoradiology Gyor
Hungary Kaposi Mor County Teaching Hospital, Center for Clinical Oncology Kaposvar
Hungary Borsod-Abauj-Zemplen County Hospital and University Educational Hospital, Center for Clinical Oncology and Radiology Miskolc
Hungary Hetenyi Geza Hospital, Department of Oncology Szolnok Jasz-Nagykun-Szolnok
Israel Rambam Health Care Campus Haifa
Israel Rabin Medical Centre Petach Tikva
Israel Kaplan Medical Centre Rehovot
Israel Sheba Medical Centre Tel Hasomer Ramat Gan
Poland Polish Red Cross Marine Hospital, Department of Chemotherapy Gdynia
Poland Provincial Specialist Hospital in Wroclaw, Department of Chemotherapy Kamienskiego Wroclaw
Poland Nicolaus Copernicus Memorial Provincial Specialist Hospital in Lodz, Department of Chemotheraphy Lodz
Poland Greater Poland Cancer Center, Department of Chemotherapy Poznan
Poland Magodent Warsaw
Poland Non-Public Health Care Facility MAGODENT Warsaw
Romania Dr. Constantin Opris County Emergency Hospital, Department of Oncology Baia Mare, Maramures
Romania Bucharest Universtiy Emergency Hosptial, Oncology Department Bucharest
Romania Coltea Clinical Hospital, Oncology Department Bucharest
Romania Filantropia Clinical Hospital, Obstetrics and Gynaecology Department Bucharest
Romania "Prof. Dr. Ion Chiricuta" Institute of Oncology Cluj-Napoca
Romania Medisprof SRL, Department of Medical Oncology Cluj-Napoca Cluj
Romania Oncology Center "Sf. Nectarie", Department of Medical Oncology Craiova Dolj County
Romania Iasi Regional Oncology Institute, Department of Medical Oncology Iasi
Romania "Gavril Curteanu" Municipal Clinical Hospital Oradea Bihor
Romania Oncomed SRL, Department of Medical Oncology Timisoara
Russian Federation Arkhangelsk Clinical Oncology Center Arkhangelsk
Russian Federation Sverdlovsk Regional Oncology Center Ekaterinburg
Russian Federation Regional Oncology Center Irkutsk
Russian Federation Ivanovo Regional Oncology Center Ivanovo
Russian Federation Republican Clinical Oncoogy Center Kazan Republic of Tatarstan
Russian Federation Clinical Oncology Center #1, Department of Healthcare of Krasnodar Territory Administration Krasnodar
Russian Federation Krasnoyarsk Kryzhanovsky Regional Oncology Center Krasnoyarsk
Russian Federation Kursk Regional Clinical Oncology Center Kursk
Russian Federation N.N. Blokhin Russian Cancer Research Center Moscow
Russian Federation N.N. Blokhin Russian Cancer Reserach Center Moscow
Russian Federation Clinical Diagnostics Center Nizhny Novgorod
Russian Federation Nizhny Novgorod Regional Oncology Center Nizhny Novgorod
Russian Federation Orel Oncology Center Orel
Russian Federation Orenburg Regional Clinical Oncology Center Orenburg
Russian Federation Pyatigorsk Oncology Center Pyatigorsk Stavropol Region
Russian Federation Medical Institution of Ryazan Region Ryazan
Russian Federation Samara Regional Clinical Oncology Center Samara
Russian Federation Republican Oncology Center Saransk Republic of Mordovia
Russian Federation Oncology Center #2, Department of Healthcare of Krasnodar Territory Administration Sochi Krasnodar
Russian Federation Petrov Research Institute of Oncology St Petersburg
Russian Federation Leningrad Regional Oncology Center St. Petersburg
Russian Federation Mechnikov North-Western State Medical University St. Petersburg
Russian Federation Municipal Clinical Oncology Center St. Petersburg
Russian Federation St. Petersburg Clinical Hospital St. Petersburg
Russian Federation Tambov Regional Clinical Oncology Center Tambov
Russian Federation Research Institute of Oncology Tomsk
Russian Federation Bashkir State Medical University Ufa
Russian Federation Regional Clinical Oncology Center Veliky Novgorod
Russian Federation Volgograd Regional Oncology Center #3 Volzhskiy
Russian Federation Yaroslavl Regional Oncology Center Yaroslavl
Ukraine Chernivtsi Regional Clinical Oncology Center, Day Care Unit Chernivtsi
Ukraine Dnipropetrovsk City Multispecialty Clinical Hospital #4/Dnipropetrovsk Regional Council, Department of Chemotherapy Dnipropetrovsk
Ukraine Donetsk City Oncology Center Donetsk
Ukraine Donetsk Regional Antitumor Center, Oncosurgery Department #2 Donetsk
Ukraine Kharkiv Regional Clinical Oncology Center, Day Care Unit Kharkiv Kyivskyi District
Ukraine State Institution: S.P. Grigoriev Institute of Medical Radiology Under the Academy of Medical Sciences of Ukraine Kharkiv
Ukraine Public Institution: Kiev Regional Oncology Hospital within Kyiv Regional Council Kiev
Ukraine Kirovohrad Regional Oncology Center, Department of Mammology Kirovohrad
Ukraine Kryvyi Rih Oncology Center/Dnipropetrovsk Regional Council, Department of Chemotherapy Kryvyi Rih Dnipropetrovsk Region
Ukraine Kyiv City Clinical Oncology Center, Department of Chemotherapy Kyiv
Ukraine Lviv State Regional Treatment and Diagnostics Oncology Center, Department of Chemotherapy Lviv
Ukraine Mariupol City Interdistrict Oncology Center, Surgery Department #2 Mariupol Donetsk Region
Ukraine Odesa Regional Clinical Hospital, Center for Mastology Odesa
Ukraine Clinical Diagnostics Center Simferopol Autonomous Republic of Crimea
Ukraine Zakarpattia Regional Clinical Oncology Center, Department of Chemotherapy Uzhhorod
Ukraine Vinnytsia Regional Clinical Oncology Center Vinnytsia
Ukraine Public Institution Zaporizhia Regional Clinical Oncology Center within Zaporizhia Regional Council Zaporizhia
United Kingdom Leeds Teaching Hospitals Trust, St. James University Hospital Leeds West Yorkshire
United Kingdom Leicester Royal Infirmary Leicester
United Kingdom The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust London
United Kingdom Macclesfield District General Hospital Macclesfield Cheshire
United Kingdom James Cook University Hospital Middlesborough
United Kingdom Academic Unit of Oncology, Nottingham University Hospital-City Campus Nottingham
United Kingdom Plymouth Oncology Centre, Derriford Hospital Plymouth
United Kingdom Weston Park Hospital Sheffield
United Kingdom Southampton General Hospital Southampton
United Kingdom University Hospital of North Staffordshire Stoke on Trent
United Kingdom The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust Sutton Surrey
United Kingdom The Christie NHS Foundation Trust Withington Manchester
United States Akron General Medical Center Akron Ohio
United States Northeast Georgia Cancer Care Athens Georgia
United States Interventional Spine and Pain Management Atlanta Georgia
United States University of Colorado Cancer Center, Anschutz Medical Campus Aurora Colorado
United States Innovative Medical Research of South Florida, Inc. Aventura Florida
United States Mary Bird Perkins Cancer Center Baton Rouge Louisiana
United States Physiatry Consultants Bay City Michigan
United States Alabama Oncology Bessemer Alabama
United States Center of Cancer and Blood Disorders (VEEDA network) Bethesda Maryland
United States St. Alexius Medical Center, Mid Dakota Clinic, PC Bismarck North Dakota
United States Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center Boston Massachusetts
United States Eastchester Cancer Care Center Bronx New York
United States Michigan Interventional Pain Center Brownstown Michigan
United States East Valley Hematology and Oncology Medical Group Burbank California
United States Lahey Clinic Department of Hematology and Oncology Burlington Massachusetts
United States Coastal Pain Research Carlsbad California
United States Northwestern University Feinberg School of Medicine, Lynn Sage Comprehensive Breast Center Chicago Illinois
United States PRIDE Dallas Texas
United States UT Southwestern Medical Center / Simmons Comprehensive Cancer Center Dallas Texas
United States Western Connecticut Health Network, Danbury Hospital Danbury Connecticut
United States Navajo Road Pain Management Center El Cajon California
United States Virginia Cancer Specialists Fairfax Virginia
United States Holy Cross Hospital-Michael & Dianne Bienes Comprehensive Cancer Center Fort Lauderdale Florida
United States California Cancer Associates For Research and Excellence Fresno California
United States California Cancer Associates for Research and Excellence, Inc. Fresno California
United States Brooke Army Medical Center (now SAMMC) Ft. Sam Houston Texas
United States St. Jude Medical Center, Virginia K. Crosson Cancer Center Fullerton California
United States The West Clinic Comprehensive Breast Center Germantown Tennessee
United States Gettysburg Cancer Center Gettysburgh Pennsylvania
United States Red Rocks Center for Rehabilitation Golden Colorado
United States Baylor College of Medicine Houston Texas
United States The University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston Texas
United States University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center Houston Texas
United States Interventional Pain Management Irvine California
United States Cancer Specialists of North Florida (ICON) Jacksonville Florida
United States Conemaugh Memorial Hospital-Memorial Medical Center Johnstown Pennsylvania
United States South Orange County Surgical Medical Group Laguna Hills California
United States Alexander Ford, MD Los Angeles California
United States Cancer Care Institute Los Angeles California
United States Cedars-Sinai Medical Center Samuel Oschin Comprehensive Cancer Institute Los Angeles California
United States Pete J. Ruane, MD, Inc. Los Angeles California
United States University of Southern California/Norris Cancer Hospital Los Angeles California
United States James Graham Brown Cancer Center, University of Louisville Louisville Kentucky
United States Central Georgia Cancer Care Macon Georgia
United States The West Clinic Memphis Tennessee
United States Medical College of Wisconsin Department of Surgery Froedtert Hospital and Cancer Center Milwaukee Wisconsin
United States Physicians Pain Specialists of Alabama, P.C. Mobile Alabama
United States J. Fred Stoner, MD New Castle Pennsylvania
United States Fountain Medical Group New York New York
United States Upper East Side Pain Medicine, P.C. New York New York
United States Weill Cornell Medical College New York New York
United States Cancer Treatment Centers of America Newnan Georgia
United States MD Anderson Center-Orlando Health Orlando Florida
United States Pain Management Institute Overland Park Kansas
United States Pain Centers Nationwide Peoria Arizona
United States University of Pittsburgh Medical Center (UPMC) Cancer Center Pittsburgh Pennsylvania
United States Florida Cancer Care Plantation Florida
United States Florida Cancer Research Institute (Florida Cancer Care) Plantation Florida
United States OHSU Knight Cancer Institute Portland Oregon
United States Jerrold Rosenberg, MD Providence Rhode Island
United States William Beaumont Hospital Cancer Center Royal Oak Michigan
United States Glenn Saperstein, D.O., LLC Saginaw Michigan
United States Cancer Care Centers of South Texas San Antonio Texas
United States Clinical Trials of Texas, Inc San Antonio Texas
United States Moores UC San Diego Cancer Center (UCSD) San Diego California
United States University of California, San Francisco (UCSF), Hellen Diller Family Comprehensive Cancer Center San Francisco California
United States Pain Institute of Santa Monica Santa Monica California
United States Valley Pain Consultants Scottsdale Arizona
United States Swedish Cancer Institute Research Seattle Washington
United States Advanced Physical Medicine St. Clair Shores Michigan
United States Pain Management Associates of CT, PC Stamford Connecticut
United States Stamford Hospital, Bennett Cancer Center Stamford Connecticut
United States Comprehensive Pain Management Syosset New York
United States Multicare Health System-Research Institute Tacoma Washington
United States H.Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute Tampa Florida
United States Cancer Treatment Centers of America Tulsa Oklahoma
United States Cancer Center of Kansas Wichita Kansas
United States APWI Williamsville New York
United States Progressive Pain Solutions Wind Gap Pennsylvania
United States Wake Forest Baptist Health Winston-Salem North Carolina
United States Randy Scharlach, MD Woodland Hills California

Sponsors (1)

Lead Sponsor Collaborator
Galena Biopharma, Inc.

Countries where clinical trial is conducted

United States,  Bulgaria,  Canada,  Czech Republic,  France,  Germany,  Hungary,  Israel,  Poland,  Romania,  Russian Federation,  Ukraine,  United Kingdom, 

References & Publications (2)

Amin A, Benavides LC, Holmes JP, Gates JD, Carmichael MG, Hueman MT, Mittendorf EA, Storrer CE, Jama YH, Craig D, Stojadinovic A, Ponniah S, Peoples GE. Assessment of immunologic response and recurrence patterns among patients with clinical recurrence after vaccination with a preventive HER2/neu peptide vaccine: from US Military Cancer Institute Clinical Trials Group Study I-01 and I-02. Cancer Immunol Immunother. 2008 Dec;57(12):1817-25. doi: 10.1007/s00262-008-0509-2. — View Citation

Mittendorf EA, Clifton GT, Holmes JP, Clive KS, Patil R, Benavides LC, Gates JD, Sears AK, Stojadinovic A, Ponniah S, Peoples GE. Clinical trial results of the HER-2/neu (E75) vaccine to prevent breast cancer recurrence in high-risk patients: from US Military Cancer Institute Clinical Trials Group Study I-01 and I-02. Cancer. 2012 May 15;118(10):2594-602. doi: 10.1002/cncr.26574. — View Citation

Outcome

Type Measure Description Time frame Safety issue
Primary Comparison of DFS in vaccine treated patients and control patients The primary objective is to compare the DFS in subjects with operable early-stage, node-positive breast cancer who receive standard of care multimodality therapy plus NeuVax™ as the treatment group or standard of care multimodality therapy plus the vaccine adjuvant, Leukine® as the control group. 36 months
Secondary Assessment of DFS and OS at 3, 5 and 10 years in vaccine and control groups, respectively; assessment of safety The secondary objectives are to evaluate the 2 groups of subjects for:
5- and 10-year DFS
3-year OS
5- and 10-year OS
Time to recurrence (TTR), time to local recurrence (TTLR), time to distant recurrence (TTDR), time to bone metastases (TTBM)
Overall safety profile and adverse events (AEs)
3 through 10 years

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