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CompletedNCT03332576Updated Jun 18, 2021

Phase 1b Study of a Cancer Vaccine to Treat Patients With Advanced Stage Ovarian, Fallopian or Peritoneal Cancer

A Phase 1 interventional study of DPX-Survivac and DPX-Survivac(Aqueous) in Epithelial Ovarian Cancer, Fallopian Tube Cancer and Peritoneal Cancer, sponsored by ImmunoVaccine Technologies, Inc. (IMV Inc.). Completed at 3 sites in 2 countries. Open to female participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2021-06-18.

Sponsored by ImmunoVaccine Technologies, Inc. (IMV Inc.) · Phase 1, Interventional, and Treatment

From the registry’s dates

  • Primary completion was Sep 2016, 10 years 2 months ago, and no results have been posted to the registry.
  • Registered 4 years 2 months after the study started (first participant enrolled Aug 2013, registered Nov 2017).
Phase
Phase 1
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
37
Allocation
Non-randomized
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
Female
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Study summary

As a follow-on study to NCT01416038, this study is designed to identify the optimal dosage of immunotherapeutic survivin vaccine DPX-Survivac and low dose oral cyclophosphamide. The combination treatment is being evaluated in a non-randomized, multi-cohort study as post-chemotherapy treatment for patients with late-stage ovarian, fallopian tube, or peritoneal cancer.

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Conditions studied

  • Epithelial Ovarian Cancer
  • Fallopian Tube Cancer
  • Peritoneal Cancer

Keywords

  • vaccine
  • immunotherapy
  • combination therapy
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In context

Carcinoma, Ovarian Epithelial

797 studies on the registry are indexed under Carcinoma, Ovarian Epithelial; 101 are open to participants now.

This study's enrollment of 37 is below the median of 45 across 584 interventional studies indexed under Carcinoma, Ovarian Epithelial.

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Lead sponsor

ImmunoVaccine Technologies, Inc. (IMV Inc.) is the lead sponsor of 8 studies on the registry; 1 is open to participants now.

Counted across the registry records on this site, refreshed daily.

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Who can participate

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

Eligibility criteria

Key Inclusion Criteria:

  • confirmed stage IIc-IV epithelial ovarian, fallopian tube or peritoneal cancer
  • Complete or partial response following standard of care surgery and chemotherapy
  • May have one disease recurrence with complete or partial response or stable disease following standard of care second line care treatment
  • Previous biologic therapy allowed, must be more than 56 days prior to first injection
  • Previous treatment with bisphosphonate allowed, must be completed 14 days prior to first injection
  • Ambulatory with an 0-1
  • > 6 months
  • Meet protocol-specified lab requirements
  • Provide and have ability to comply with protocol requirements

Key Exclusion Criteria:

  • Concurrent chemotherapy, radiation therapy, immunotherapy are excluded ( as specified in protocol)
  • Prior receipt of survivin based vaccines
  • Participation in prior therapeutic adjuvant ovarian cancer studies, except for platinum-based adjuvant studies
  • Progressive disease (rising CA-125 acceptable)
  • More than one course of chemotherapy for recurrent disease
  • Concurrent bevacizumab as maintenance therapy
  • Concurrent second other than non-melanoma skin cancer, cervical carcinoma in situ, or controlled bladder cancer
  • History of disease
  • Recent history of thyroiditis
  • Presence of a serious acute infection or chronic infection
  • Other serious intercurrent chronic or acute illness
  • Ongoing treatment with therapy or other
  • Acute or chronic skin disorders
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(12)

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Histologically or cytologically confirmed

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Line of therapy

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“Two prior lines” means two courses that count separately under the study’s rules — not simply two drugs. Ask the study team if you are unsure how yours are counted.

Investigational drug or device

A drug or device being studied in a clinical trial.

It may be new, or already approved and being studied for another use, dose or form. Criteria often leave out people who took part in another study of one within a recent period, commonly 30 days or five half-lives.

ECOG performance status

A scale of how much an illness limits everyday activity. For people being assessed to join a study, scores run from 0 (fully active) to 4; lower is more active.

0
Fully active, no restrictions.
1
Limited in strenuous activity, but walking and able to do light work, such as housework or office work.
2
Walking and able to look after yourself, but unable to work; up and about more than half of waking hours.
3
Able to look after yourself only in part; in bed or a chair more than half of waking hours.
4
Unable to look after yourself at all; in bed or a chair all day.

Studies most often ask for 0–1 or 0–2. Your doctor gives the score; the WHO scale uses the same steps. The full scale also has 5, which records death.

Life expectancy

The study doctor’s estimate of how long someone is likely to live. Criteria use it so that people can stay in the study long enough for it to answer its question.

Informed consent

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You can keep asking questions during the study, you are told of new information that matters, and you can choose to leave at any time.

Washout period

A planned gap after a treatment, so that its effects can lessen before the study treatment or a study assessment. Ask the study team and the doctor who prescribed it before changing any medicine.

Cancer (malignancy)

Malignancy means cancer. Criteria about another or earlier malignancy ask whether you have had a different cancer, usually within a set number of years.

Some are commonly allowed, such as treated skin cancers other than melanoma and early cancers removed completely — check the exceptions this study lists.

Autoimmune disease

A condition in which the immune system attacks the body’s own tissues, such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, psoriasis, type 1 diabetes or inflammatory bowel disease.

Immunotherapy studies often leave out active autoimmune disease, and some name exceptions, such as thyroid disease on replacement hormone. Check the exceptions this study lists.

Brain metastases

Cancer deposits in the brain from a cancer that started elsewhere in the body (CNS metastases include the spinal cord).

Studies differ: some leave out any brain metastases, some accept ones treated and stable for some weeks. Check what this study allows.

Corticosteroids (steroids)

Anti-inflammatory medicines such as prednisone, prednisolone and dexamethasone — not the anabolic steroids used for muscle.

Studies differ in what they allow: check which steroid medicines, routes (tablets, injections, creams, inhalers, eye drops) and doses this study accepts.

Immunosuppression

A weakened immune system. It can come from an illness, such as HIV or some blood cancers, or from medicines that turn the immune system down, for example after an organ transplant or for an autoimmune disease; steroids at higher doses count.

Read whether the line is about a condition or about medicines, and which medicines and doses it means.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 1
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Non-randomized
Intervention model
Sequential assignment
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
37 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    Cohort 1

    6 Doses DPX-Survivac (2 prime q3w, 4 boost q8w) Low dose cyclophosphamide

    Biological: DPX-Survivac · Drug: Cyclophosphamide

  • Experimental
    Cohort 2

    6 Doses DPX-Survivac (2 prime q3w, 4 boost q8w) Low dose cyclophosphamide

    Biological: DPX-Survivac · Drug: Cyclophosphamide

  • Experimental
    Cohort 3

    3 Doses DPX-Survivac (1 prime, 2 boost q8w) Low dose cyclophosphamide

    Biological: DPX-Survivac · Drug: Cyclophosphamide

  • Experimental
    Cohort 4

    5 Doses DPX-Survivac (2 prime q6w, 3 boost q6w) Low dose cyclophosphamide

    Biological: DPX-Survivac · Drug: Cyclophosphamide

  • Experimental
    Cohort 5

    5 Doses DPX-Survivac/DPX-Survivac(Aqueous) (2 prime q4w, 3 boost q4w) Low dose cyclophosphamide

    Biological: DPX-Survivac · Biological: DPX-Survivac(Aqueous) · Drug: Cyclophosphamide

Interventions

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Safety as measured by adverse event reporting (CTCAE)

    Time frame: up to 11 months

Secondary outcomes

  1. Cell mediated immunity as measured by the antigen specific response in peripheral blood

    Time frame: up to 11 months

  2. Impact on residual tumour

    Evaluated by standard of care radiology and CA-125

    Time frame: up to 11 months

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Study locations

3 sites
  • Winthrop University Hospital
    Mineola, New York 11501, United States
  • Lenox Hill Hospital
    New York, New York 10028, United States
  • Princess Margaret Cancer Centre
    Toronto, Ontario M5G 2M9, Canada
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References and documents

Individual participant data

Plan to share: No

No publications or documents are linked to this record.

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Updates

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Jun 18, 2021, 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
NCT03332576
Lead sponsor
ImmunoVaccine Technologies, Inc. (IMV Inc.)
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Nov 6, 2017
Start date
Aug 23, 2013
Primary completion
Sep 8, 2016
Completion
Sep 9, 2019
Last update
Jun 18, 2021

Oversight

Data monitoring committee
No
FDA-regulated drug
Yes
FDA-regulated device
No
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