Vaccine Therapy in Treating Patients With Stage III or Stage IV Melanoma

Summary

RATIONALE: Vaccines made from 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/II trial to study the effectiveness of vaccine therapy in treating patients who have stage III or stage IV melanoma.

Timeline

Start

2002-10

Primary completion

2005-06

Completion

2007-06

Publications

• Gross S, Erdmann M, Haendle I, Voland S, Berger T, Schultz E, Strasser E, Dankerl P, Janka R, Schliep S, Heinzerling L, Sotlar K, Coulie P, Schuler G, Schuler-Thurner B. Twelve-year survival and immune correlates in dendritic cell-vaccinated melanoma patients. JCI Insight. 2017 Apr 20;2(8):e91438. doi: 10.1172/jci.insight.91438. eCollection 2017 Apr 20.

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