Biological Therapy in Treating Patients With Advanced Cancer

Summary

RATIONALE: A person's white blood cells mixed with tumor proteins may make the body build an immune response to kill tumor cells. PURPOSE: Phase I trial to study the effectiveness of biological therapy in treating patients who have advanced cancer that shows no signs of disease following treatment.

Timeline

Start

2000-02

Primary completion

2001-08

Completion

2002-07

Publications

• Results Morse MA, Hobeika A, Osada T, Niedzwiecki D, Marcom PK, Blackwell KL, Anders C, Devi GR, Lyerly HK, Clay TM. Long term disease-free survival and T cell and antibody responses in women with high-risk Her2+ breast cancer following vaccination against Her2. J Transl Med. 2007 Sep 6;5:42. doi: 10.1186/1479-5876-5-42.

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