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Vaccine Therapy With or Without Interleukin-12 in Treating Patients With Stage III or Stage IV Melanoma

NCT00003339

RandomizedTreatment

Summary

RATIONALE: Vaccines made from a person's cancer cells may make the body build an immune response that will kill tumor cells. Interleukin-12 may kill tumor cells by stopping blood flow to the tumor and by stimulating white blood cells to kill melanoma cells. PURPOSE: Randomized phase II trial to determine the effectiveness of vaccine therapy given with interleukin-12 in treating patients who have stage III or stage IV melanoma.

Timeline

Start
1998-11
Primary completion
1999-11
Completion
2004-09

Drugs

EvaluationDrugModalityDoseRoute
Subject gp100 antigen Peptide Subcutaneous
Subject interleukin-12 Protein / enzyme biologic Subcutaneous
Subject tyrosinase peptide Peptide Subcutaneous
Background incomplete Freund's adjuvant Other / unclassified Subcutaneous