Vaccine Therapy, Chemotherapy, and Radiation Therapy in Treating Patients With Stage III Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer That Cannot Be Removed With Surgery

Lung Cancer Clinical Trial

Official title: A Pilot Trial of a CEA/TRICOM-Based Vaccine in Combination With Combined Chemotherapy/Radiotherapy in Patients With Unresectable Stage III Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer (NSCLC)

Status Completed

Clinical Trial Summary

RATIONALE: Vaccines made from a gene-modified virus may make the body build an immune response to kill tumor cells. Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as paclitaxel and carboplatin, work in different ways to stop tumor cells from dividing so they stop growing or die. Radiation therapy uses high energy x-rays to damage tumor cells. Combining vaccine therapy with chemotherapy and radiation therapy may kill more tumor cells.

PURPOSE: This clinical trial is studying how well giving vaccine therapy together with paclitaxel, carboplatin, and radiation therapy works in treating patients with stage III non-small cell lung cancer that cannot be removed with surgery.

Clinical Trial Description

OBJECTIVES:

Primary

• Determine the safety and feasibility of standard paclitaxel, carboplatin, and radiotherapy in combination with vaccinia-CEA-TRICOM vaccine, fowlpox-CEA-TRICOM vaccine, and recombinant fowlpox GM-CSF vaccine in patients with unresectable stage III non-small cell lung cancer.

Secondary

• Determine clinical response in patients treated with this regimen.

• Determine time to disease progression and overall median survival of patients treated with this regimen.

• Determine immunologic response in patients treated with this regimen.

OUTLINE: This is a pilot study.

• Vaccine: Patients receive vaccinia-CEA-TRICOM vaccine subcutaneously (SC) on day 0 and fowlpox-CEA-TRICOM (rF-CEA-TRICOM) vaccine SC on days 14, 29, 43, 57, 70, 91, and 112. Patients also receive recombinant fowlpox GM-CSF (rF-GM-CSF) vaccine SC with each vaccination. Patients with stable or responding disease after day 112 continue to receive rF-CEA-TRICOM and rF-GM-CSF SC every 3 weeks in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.

• Radiotherapy: Patients undergo radiotherapy on days 21-25, 28-32, 35-39, 42-46, 49-53, 56-60, and 63-67.

• Chemotherapy: Concurrently with radiotherapy, patients receive paclitaxel IV over 1 hour and carboplatin IV over 30 minutes on days 21, 28, 35, 42, 49, 56, and 63. Patients also receive paclitaxel and carboplatin on days 91 and 112 (after completion of radiotherapy).

Patients are followed annually for up to 15 years.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 10 patients will be accrued for this study within 4-6 months. ;

Study Design

Primary Purpose: Treatment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Carcinoma, Non-Small-Cell Lung
• Lung Cancer
• Lung Neoplasms

• NCT number: NCT00091039
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: National Cancer Institute (NCI)
• Status: Completed
• Phase: N/A
• Start date: August 2004
• Completion date: February 2006