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To determine if a vaccine made from the patient's own tumor tissue can stimulate an immune response against the patient's tumor cells. To determine the safety of the vaccine.


Clinical Trial Description

To study the toxicity, safety and DTH response of DNP-modified autologous ovarian tumor cell vaccine and the DTH response to unmodified ovarian tumor cells in patients with relapsed ovarian cancer:

- To determine the tolerability and toxicity of the treatment regimen

- To determine whether O-Vax induces a DTH response to autologous, DNP-modified ovarian cancer cells

- To determine whether O-Vax induces a DTH response to autologous, unmodified ovarian cancer cells

Study Population: Patients with recurrent epithelial ovarian cancer whose therapeutic tumor surgery provides a mass which yields adequate tumor cells for vaccine preparation and delayed-type hypersensitivity (DTH) testing

Study Design: A Phase I/IIa double-blind, three-dose, multi-center study

Investigational Product: O-Vax: DNP-modified autologous ovarian tumor cell vaccine

Dosage Form: Cell suspension

Route of Administration: Intradermal

Dosage and Treatment Schedule: Prior to enrollment in the study, one dose of 5 x 106 modified and one dose of 5 x 106 unmodified autologous ovarian cancer cells will be administered, to establish a negative DTH response at baseline. Three dosing regimens will be used: 5 x 105, 2.5 x 106, or 5 x 106 DNP-modified autologous ovarian tumor cells. An initial dose of DNP-modified autologous ovarian tumor cells* followed by cyclophosphamide then weekly doses of DNP-modified autologous ovarian tumor cells mixed with Bacillus of Calmette and Guérin (BCG) for 6 weeks, and completed with one dose of DNP-modified autologous ovarian tumor cells mixed with BCG as a 6 month booster if adequate cells

- count determined prior to aliquoting for cryopreservation

Endpoints: Treatment-emergent and related adverse events, serious adverse events, and Grade 3 and 4 laboratory abnormalities

Other Parameters:

- Delayed-type hypersensitivity skin reactions for assessing the induction of immune responses to DNP-modified and unmodified autologous ovarian tumor cells

- CA-125 levels

- Survival

- Exploratory analysis incorporating in vitro analysis of lymphocytes separated from patient blood samples

Duration of Treatment: Up to 6 months

Duration of Subject Participation in Study: Three months from the patient's last vaccine

Duration of Follow-up: Survival information will be collected via phone or visit on a quarterly basis for each patient beginning 30 days after the last scheduled visit

Number of Subjects Required to Meet Protocol Objectives: 42 evaluable subjects

Number of Study Centers: 4-5

Number of Individual Blood Draws: 13 draws over nine months

Volume of Blood Drawn: 11 Draws of 30 mL/draw (total 360 mL) and two draws of 50mL in heparinized tubes ;


Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Endpoint Classification: Safety/Efficacy Study, Intervention Model: Parallel Assignment, Masking: Double Blind (Subject, Caregiver, Investigator, Outcomes Assessor), Primary Purpose: Treatment


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NCT number NCT00660101
Study type Interventional
Source AVAX Technologies
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Status Active, not recruiting
Phase Phase 1/Phase 2
Start date June 2008
Completion date January 2016

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