Vaccine Therapy in Treating Patients With Breast Cancer

Summary

RATIONALE: Vaccines made from peptides may help the body build an effective immune response to kill tumor cells that express HER2/neu. Biological therapies, such as GM-CSF, may stimulate the immune system in different ways and stop tumor cells from growing. It is not yet known whether vaccine therapy is more effective than GM-CSF in treating breast cancer. PURPOSE: This randomized phase II trial is studying vaccine therapy to see how well it works compared with GM-CSF in treating patients with breast cancer.

Timeline

Start

2007-01

Primary completion

2014-12-31

Completion

2017-03-31

Publications

• Background Mittendorf EA, Alatrash G, Xiao H, Clifton GT, Murray JL, Peoples GE. Breast cancer vaccines: ongoing National Cancer Institute-registered clinical trials. Expert Rev Vaccines. 2011 Jun;10(6):755-74. doi: 10.1586/erv.11.59.
• Results Sears AK, Perez SA, Clifton GT, Benavides LC, Gates JD, Clive KS, Holmes JP, Shumway NM, Van Echo DC, Carmichael MG, Ponniah S, Baxevanis CN, Mittendorf EA, Papamichail M, Peoples GE. AE37: a novel T-cell-eliciting vaccine for breast cancer. Expert Opin Biol Ther. 2011 Nov;11(11):1543-50. doi: 10.1517/14712598.2011.616889. Epub 2011 Sep 6.
• Jackson DO, Trappey FA, Clifton GT, Vreeland TJ, Peace KM, Hale DF, Litton JK, Murray JL, Perez SA, Papamichail M, Mittendorf EA, Peoples GE. Effects of HLA status and HER2 status on outcomes in breast cancer patients at risk for recurrence - Implications for vaccine trial design. Clin Immunol. 2018 Oct;195:28-35. doi: 10.1016/j.clim.2018.06.008. Epub 2018 Jul 17.

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