Safety and Efficacy of Combination Listeria/GVAX Immunotherapy in Pancreatic Cancer

Summary

Test the safety, immune response and efficacy of GVAX pancreas vaccine (with cyclophosphamide) and CRS-207 compared to GVAX pancreas vaccine (with cyclophosphamide) alone in adults who have failed or refused prior treatment for metastatic pancreatic cancer.

Timeline

Start

2011-09-21

Primary completion

2016-10

Completion

2017-02-10

Publications

• Background Brockstedt DG, Giedlin MA, Leong ML, Bahjat KS, Gao Y, Luckett W, Liu W, Cook DN, Portnoy DA, Dubensky TW Jr. Listeria-based cancer vaccines that segregate immunogenicity from toxicity. Proc Natl Acad Sci U S A. 2004 Sep 21;101(38):13832-7. doi: 10.1073/pnas.0406035101. Epub 2004 Sep 13.
• Background Laheru D, Lutz E, Burke J, Biedrzycki B, Solt S, Onners B, Tartakovsky I, Nemunaitis J, Le D, Sugar E, Hege K, Jaffee E. Allogeneic granulocyte macrophage colony-stimulating factor-secreting tumor immunotherapy alone or in sequence with cyclophosphamide for metastatic pancreatic cancer: a pilot study of safety, feasibility, and immune activation. Clin Cancer Res. 2008 Mar 1;14(5):1455-63. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-07-0371.
• Background Le DT, Dubenksy TW Jr, Brockstedt DG. Clinical development of Listeria monocytogenes-based immunotherapies. Semin Oncol. 2012 Jun;39(3):311-22. doi: 10.1053/j.seminoncol.2012.02.008.
• Background Le DT, Wang-Gillam A, Picozzi V, Greten TF, Crocenzi T, Springett G, Morse M, Zeh H, Cohen D, Fine RL, Onners B, Uram JN, Laheru DA, Lutz ER, Solt S, Murphy AL, Skoble J, Lemmens E, Grous J, Dubensky T Jr, Brockstedt DG, Jaffee EM. Safety and survival with GVAX pancreas prime and Listeria Monocytogenes-expressing mesothelin (CRS-207) boost vaccines for metastatic pancreatic cancer. J Clin Oncol. 2015 Apr 20;33(12):1325-33. doi: 10.1200/JCO.2014.57.4244. Epub 2015 Jan 12.

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