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Vaccine Therapy in Treating Patients With Stage IV or Recurrent Malignant Melanoma

A Phase 1/2 interventional study of dendritic cell-MART-1 peptide vaccine in Melanoma (Skin), sponsored by Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center. Completed at 1 site in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2020-08-03.

Sponsored by Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center · Phase 1/2, Interventional, and Treatment

Phase
Phase 1/2
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
28
Allocation
Non-randomized
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Study summary

RATIONALE: Vaccines made by inserting a laboratory-treated gene into a person's white blood cells may make the body build an immune response to kill tumor cells.

PURPOSE: This phase I/II trial is studying the side effects and best dose of vaccine therapy and to see how well it works in treating patients with stage IV or recurrent malignant melanoma.

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Conditions studied

  • Melanoma (Skin)

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Keywords

  • stage IV melanoma
  • recurrent melanoma
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In context

Melanoma

3,006 studies on the registry are indexed under Melanoma; 520 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 28 is below the median of 38 across 2,351 interventional studies indexed under Melanoma.

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Lead sponsor

Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center is the lead sponsor of 396 studies on the registry; 67 are open to participants now.

Of its 37 completed or terminated interventional studies of FDA-regulated products, 2 (5%) have results posted.

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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Inclusion criteria

  • This study is confined to adults over the age of 18 with histologically proven malignant melanoma.
  • MART-1, as assessed by either RT-PCR or by immunohistochemistry.
  • Subjects must be typed for HLA-A*0201 for the phase I part of the study, and HLA-A*0201 and/or DR*04 for the phase II part.
  • Stage with unresectable measurable melanoma (stage IV or stage III unresectable). Patients previously treated with any form of therapy (including chemotherapy, radiation therapy, immunotherapy or surgery) for either metastatic, relapsed or primary melanoma are eligible for this trial, provided that previous the previous treatment was completed > 30 days prior to first vaccine.
  • Both male and female patients may be enrolled. Premenopausal females must have a negative pregnancy test prior to treatment.
  • Karnofsky Performance Status greater than or equal to 70 percent, or ECOG greater than 2.
  • No previous evidence of class 3 or greater New York Heart Association cardiac insufficiency or coronary artery disease.
  • No previous evidence of opportunistic infection.
  • A minimum of 30 days must have elapsed since the completion of prior chemotherapy, immunotherapy or radiation therapy.
  • Adequate baseline hematological function as assessed by the following laboratory values within 30 days prior to study entry:

    • Hemoglobin > 9.0 g/dl.
    • Platelets > 100,000/mm3.
    • WBC > 3,000/mm3.
    • Absolute Neutrophil Count (ANC) > 1,000/mm3.
  • Ability to give informed consent.

Exclusion criteria

Exclusion Criteria

Patients who meet any one of the following criteria will be excluded from study entry:

  • Lactating females: Females of child-bearing potential (pre-menopausal) must have a negative serum beta-HCG pregnancy test (within Day -7 to Day 0).
  • Acute infection: any acute viral, bacterial, or fungal infection which requires specific therapy. Acute therapy must have been completed within 14 days prior to study treatment.
  • HIV-infected patients, due to concerns in the ability to stimulate an effective immune response.
  • Acute medical problems such as ischemic heart or lung disease that may be considered an unacceptable anesthetic or operative risk.
  • Patients with any underlying conditions which would contraindicate therapy with study treatment (or allergies to reagents ).
  • Patients with organ allografts.
  • Uncontrolled CNS metastasis. Patients with CNS metastasis will be eligible if they have received CNS irradiation to control local tumor growth.
  • Previous clinical evidence of an autoimmune disease.
  • Concomitant Medication and Treatment

All allowed medications or treatments should be kept to a minimum and recorded. All questions regarding concomitant medications should be referred to the study chair or investigator.

Medications and Treatments Not Allowed

  • Corticosteroids
  • Chemotherapy
  • Cyclosporin A.
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Study design

Phase
Phase 1 / Phase 2
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Non-randomized
Intervention model
Parallel assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
28 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Group A - first dose for phase 1

    A\*0201 positive subjects will receive MART-1 adenovirus-transduced dendritic cells (DC)at dose of 10\^6. Subjects will receive a total of three biweekly vaccinations given intradermally. If significant clinical or immunological response (to be defined later) is noted, subjects will be eligible for up to 6 additional monthly vaccine administrations.

    Biological: dendritic cell-MART-1 peptide vaccine

  • Experimental
    Arm B - dose increase for phase 1

    A\*0201 positive subjects will receive MART-1 adenovirus-transduced dendritic cells (DC)at dose of 10\^7. Subjects will receive a total of three biweekly vaccinations given intradermally. If significant clinical or immunological response (to be defined later) is noted, subjects will be eligible for up to 6 additional monthly vaccine administrations.

    Biological: dendritic cell-MART-1 peptide vaccine

  • Experimental
    Arm C - A*0201+/DR*04+ subjects - Phase II

    Subjects will receive MART-1 adenovirus-transduced dendritic cells (DC)at dose of 10\^7. Subjects will receive a total of three biweekly vaccinations given intradermally. If significant clinical or immunological response (to be defined later) is noted, subjects will be eligible for up to 6 additional monthly vaccine administrations.

    Biological: dendritic cell-MART-1 peptide vaccine

  • Experimental
    Arm D - A*0201+/DR*04- - phase 2

    Subjects will receive MART-1 adenovirus-transduced dendritic cells (DC)at dose of 10\^7. Subjects will receive a total of three biweekly vaccinations given intradermally. If significant clinical or immunological response (to be defined later) is noted, subjects will be eligible for up to 6 additional monthly vaccine administrations.

    Biological: dendritic cell-MART-1 peptide vaccine

  • Experimental
    Arm E - A*0201-/DR*04+ - phase 2

    Subjects will receive MART-1 adenovirus-transduced dendritic cells (DC)at dose of 10\^7. Subjects will receive a total of three biweekly vaccinations given intradermally. If significant clinical or immunological response (to be defined later) is noted, subjects will be eligible for up to 6 additional monthly vaccine administrations.

    Biological: dendritic cell-MART-1 peptide vaccine

Interventions

  • Biologicaldendritic cell-MART-1 peptide vaccine

    Subjects will receive MART-1 adenovirus-transduced dendritic cells (DC)at dose of 10\^6 (for arm A) or 10\^7 (for arms B-E). Subjects will receive a total of three biweekly vaccinations given intradermally. If significant clinical or immunological response (to be defined later) is noted, subjects will be eligible for up to 6 additional monthly vaccine administrations.

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Optimal dose

    Time frame: 7 months

Secondary outcomes

  1. Safety of administering MART-1 adenovirus transduced dendritic cells

    Time frame: 7 months

  2. Immunological response (peptide-specific T cell generation, skin test immunohistology)

    Time frame: 7 months

  3. Clinical response (disease improvement or disease progression)

    Time frame: 7 months

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Study locations

1 site
  • Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center at UCLA
    Los Angeles, California 90095-1781, United States
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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Aug 3, 2020, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT00039325
Lead sponsor
Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center
Collaborators
National Institutes of Health (NIH)
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Jan 27, 2003
Start date
Mar 2002
Primary completion
Sep 2005
Completion
Jun 2009
Last update
Aug 3, 2020

Study contacts

James S. Economou, MD
study chair · Jonsson Comprehensive Cancer Center

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
Yes
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