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

NCT00085397

RandomizedTreatment

Summary

RATIONALE: Vaccines made from a patient's dendritic cells may make the body build an immune response to kill tumor cells. It is not yet known whether combining vaccine therapy with either gp100 antigen or the patient's tumor cells will cause a stronger immune response and kill more tumor cells. PURPOSE: This randomized phase II trial is studying vaccine therapy and gp100 antigen to see how well they work compared to vaccine therapy and patient's tumor cells in treating patients with stage III or stage IV melanoma.

Timeline

Start
2004-03
Primary completion
Completion

Drugs

EvaluationDrugModalityDoseRoute
Subject autologous dendritic cell-tumor fusion vaccine Vaccine Subcutaneous
Subject gp100 antigen Peptide Intravenous
Subject therapeutic autologous dendritic cells Vaccine Intravenous

Indications