Vaccine Therapy in Treating Patients With Stage I, Stage II, or Stage III Non-small Cell Lung Cancer

Summary

RATIONALE: Vaccines made from a person's white blood cells and allogeneic tumor cells may make the body build an effective immune response to kill tumor cells. PURPOSE: This phase II trial is studying how well vaccine therapy works in treating patients with stage I, stage II, or stage III non-small cell lung cancer.

Timeline

Start

2004-10

Primary completion

2008-04

Completion

2008-04

Publications

• Results Hirschowitz EA, Foody T, Hidalgo GE, Yannelli JR. Immunization of NSCLC patients with antigen-pulsed immature autologous dendritic cells. Lung Cancer. 2007 Sep;57(3):365-72. doi: 10.1016/j.lungcan.2007.04.002. Epub 2007 May 16.
• Results Hirschowitz EA, Foody T, Kryscio R, Dickson L, Sturgill J, Yannelli J. Autologous dendritic cell vaccines for non-small-cell lung cancer. J Clin Oncol. 2004 Jul 15;22(14):2808-15. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2004.01.074.
• Results Hirschowitz EA, Yannelli JR. Immunotherapy for lung cancer. Proc Am Thorac Soc. 2009 Apr 15;6(2):224-32. doi: 10.1513/pats.200806-048LC.

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