A Study to Evaluate the Safety and Efficacy of Inactivated Varicella-zoster Vaccine (VZV) as a Preventative Treatment for Herpes Zoster (HZ) and HZ-related Complications in Adult Participants With Solid Tumor or Hematologic Malignancy (V212-011)

Summary

This is a randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled study to assess the safety and tolerability of V212 when administered to adults with solid tumor malignancy (STM) receiving chemotherapy and to assess the impact of V212 on the development of herpes zoster (HZ) in adults with STM receiving chemotherapy. The primary hypothesis is that vaccination with V212 will reduce the incidence of HZ compared with placebo in adults with STM (lower bound of the 97.5% {one-sided α=0.0125} confidence interval \[CI\] for the estimated vaccine efficacy in adults with STM be \>25%). Participants with hematologic malignancy (HM) were also enrolled and were to be originally included in the primary and secondary objectives and analyses. After an interim analysis demonstrated clear evidence of futility of V212 in the HM population, enrollment of this population was stopped and all HM-related objectives and analyses were made exploratory and are not reported in this record.

Timeline

Start

2011-06-24

Primary completion

2017-04-11

Completion

2017-04-11

Publications

• Zorger AM, Hirsch C, Baumann M, Feldmann M, Brockelmann PJ, Mellinghoff S, Monsef I, Skoetz N, Kreuzberger N. Vaccines for preventing infections in adults with haematological malignancies. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2025 May 21;5(5):CD015530. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD015530.pub2.
• Hirsch C, Zorger AM, Baumann M, Park YS, Brockelmann PJ, Mellinghoff S, Monsef I, Skoetz N, Kreuzberger N. Vaccines for preventing infections in adults with solid tumours. Cochrane Database Syst Rev. 2025 Apr 16;4(4):CD015551. doi: 10.1002/14651858.CD015551.pub2.
• Boeckh MJ, Arvin AM, Mullane KM, Camacho LH, Winston DJ, Morrison VA, Hurtado K, Durrand Hall J, Pang L, Su SC, Kaplan SS, Annunziato PW, Popmihajlov Z; V212 Protocol 001 Trial Group and V212 Protocol 011 Trial Group. Immunogenicity of Inactivated Varicella Zoster Vaccine in Autologous Hematopoietic Stem Cell Transplant Recipients and Patients With Solid or Hematologic Cancer. Open Forum Infect Dis. 2020 Jun 2;7(7):ofaa172. doi: 10.1093/ofid/ofaa172. eCollection 2020 Jul.
• Mullane KM, Morrison VA, Camacho LH, Arvin A, McNeil SA, Durrand J, Campbell B, Su SC, Chan ISF, Parrino J, Kaplan SS, Popmihajlov Z, Annunziato PW; V212 Protocol 011 Trial Team. Safety and efficacy of inactivated varicella zoster virus vaccine in immunocompromised patients with malignancies: a two-arm, randomised, double-blind, phase 3 trial. Lancet Infect Dis. 2019 Sep;19(9):1001-1012. doi: 10.1016/S1473-3099(19)30310-X. Epub 2019 Aug 6.

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