Vaccine Therapy in Treating Patients With Unresectable Metastatic Melanoma

Summary

Phase I trial to study the effectiveness of vaccine therapy in treating patients who have unresectable metastatic melanoma. Vaccines may make the body build an immune response to kill tumor cells.

Timeline

Start

1999-10

Primary completion

2006-04

Completion

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Publications

• Results Kaufman HL, Deraffele G, Mitcham J, Moroziewicz D, Cohen SM, Hurst-Wicker KS, Cheung K, Lee DS, Divito J, Voulo M, Donovan J, Dolan K, Manson K, Panicali D, Wang E, Horig H, Marincola FM. Targeting the local tumor microenvironment with vaccinia virus expressing B7.1 for the treatment of melanoma. J Clin Invest. 2005 Jul;115(7):1903-12. doi: 10.1172/JCI24624. Epub 2005 Jun 2.
• Results Kaufman HL, Conkright W, Divito J Jr, Horig H, Kaleya R, Lee D, Mani S, Panicali D, Rajdev L, Ravikumar TS, Wise-Campbell S, Surhland MJ. A phase I trial of intra lesional RV-B7.1 vaccine in the treatment of malignant melanoma. Hum Gene Ther. 2000 May 1;11(7):1065-82. doi: 10.1089/10430340050015374. No abstract available.

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