Vaccine Therapy in Treating Patients With Stage III or Stage IV Kidney Cancer

Summary

RATIONALE: Vaccines may make the body build an immune response to kill tumor cells. PURPOSE: Phase I trial to study the effectiveness of vaccine therapy in treating patients who have stage III or stage IV kidney cancer.

Timeline

Start

2000-02

Primary completion

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Completion

2002-08

Publications

• Results Su Z, Dannull J, Heiser A, Yancey D, Pruitt S, Madden J, Coleman D, Niedzwiecki D, Gilboa E, Vieweg J. Immunological and clinical responses in metastatic renal cancer patients vaccinated with tumor RNA-transfected dendritic cells. Cancer Res. 2003 May 1;63(9):2127-33.

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