Vaccine Therapy in Treating Patients With Stage III or Stage IV Melanoma That Cannot Be Removed With Surgery

Melanoma (Skin) Clinical Trial

Official title: Randomized, Open Phase II Study of Immunization With the Recombinant MAGE-3 Protein Combined With Adjuvant AS02B or AS15 in Patients With Unresectable and Progressive Metastatic Cutaneous Melanoma

Status Active, not recruiting

Clinical Trial Summary

RATIONALE: Vaccines may make the body build an immune response to kill tumor cells.

PURPOSE: This randomized phase II trial is studying two different regimens of vaccine therapy and comparing them to see how well they work in treating patients with stage III or stage IV melanoma that cannot be removed with surgery.

Clinical Trial Description

OBJECTIVES:

Primary

• Compare the objective response rate (complete and partial response) in patients with unresectable stage III or stage IV M1a cutaneous melanoma immunized with vaccine comprising D1/3-MAGE-3-His fusion protein and SB-AS02B adjuvant vs SB-AS15 adjuvant.

• Compare the activity of SB-AS02B adjuvant vs SB-AS15 adjuvant, in terms of maximizing the antigenicity of MAGE-3, in patients treated with these regimens.

• Compare the rate of grade 3/4 vaccine-related toxicity in patients treated with these regimens.

Secondary

• Compare progression-free survival in patients treated with these regimens.

OUTLINE: This is a randomized, open label, parallell-group, multicenter study. Patients are stratified according to disease stage (III in transit vs other stage III vs IV), presence of lesion ≥ 20 mm (yes vs no), and participating center. Patients are randomized to 1 of 2 treatment arms.

• Induction therapy

• Arm I: Patients receive immunization comprising D1/3-MAGE-3-His fusion protein and SB-AS02B adjuvant intramuscularly (IM) once weekly on weeks 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, and 11.

• Arm II: Patients receive immunization comprising D1/3-MAGE-3-His fusion protein SB-AS15 adjuvant IM once weekly on weeks 1, 3, 5, 7, 9, and 11.

Patients achieving a clinical complete response (CR), partial response (PR), stable disease (SD), or slow progressive disease (SPD) proceed to maintenance therapy.

• Maintenance therapy: Patients in both arms receive immunization (according to their randomized arm) once weekly on weeks 15, 18, 21, 24, 27, 30, 34, 40, 46, and 52.

Patients maintaining a CR, PR, or SD proceed to long-term treatment.

• Long-term treatment: Beginning 3 months after completion of maintenance therapy, patients in both arms receive immunization (according to their randomized arm) once every 3 months for 4 courses and then once every 6 months for 4 courses.

Treatment continues in both arms in the absence of disease progression that does not correspond to SPD status, unacceptable toxicity, or the diagnosis of an autoimmune disease.

Patients are followed every 12 weeks.

PROJECTED ACCRUAL: A total of 68 patients (34 patients per treatment arm) will be accrued for this study. ;

Study Design

Allocation: Randomized, Masking: Open Label, Primary Purpose: Treatment

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Melanoma
• Melanoma (Skin)

• NCT number: NCT00086866
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: European Organisation for Research and Treatment of Cancer - EORTC
• Status: Active, not recruiting
• Phase: Phase 2
• Start date: May 2004