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. Biological therapies such as denileukin diftitox may be able to deliver cancer-killing substances directly to melanoma cells. Combining vaccine therapy with biological therapy may kill more tumor cells. PURPOSE: Phase I/II trial to study the effectiveness of combining vaccine therapy with denileukin diftitox in treating patients who have stage III or stage IV melanoma.

Timeline

Start

2002-10

Primary completion

2011-10

Completion

2012-05

Publications

• Baur AS, Lutz MB, Schierer S, Beltrame L, Theiner G, Zinser E, Ostalecki C, Heidkamp G, Haendle I, Erdmann M, Wiesinger M, Leisgang W, Gross S, Pommer AJ, Kampgen E, Dudziak D, Steinkasserer A, Cavalieri D, Schuler-Thurner B, Schuler G. Denileukin diftitox (ONTAK) induces a tolerogenic phenotype in dendritic cells and stimulates survival of resting Treg. Blood. 2013 Sep 26;122(13):2185-94. doi: 10.1182/blood-2012-09-456988. Epub 2013 Aug 19.

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