Vaccines are hot in cancer research right now and a mesothelioma vaccine treatment is part of this new scientific effort.
We’ve found a new mesothelioma vaccine treatment study now recruiting participants. The study is under the auspices of the federal government’s prestigious National Cancer Institute headquartered outside of Washington D.C. in Bethesda, MD and simultaneously being conducted at top cancer centers across the United States. One of them is the Comprehensive Cancer Care Center at the University of California San Francisco.
Most of the vaccines we get throughout our lives seek to prevent serious diseases by injecting just enough of a disease to trigger immunity without making us actually sick. Cancer vaccines, including this new mesothelioma vaccine being tested, work a little differently. They aim not to prevent but to treat cancer already present. The immune response triggered by the vaccine helps by destroying tumor cells.
For this specific mesothelioma vaccine, a bacteria known as Listeria will be the active agent. It is named after Joseph Lister, an English doctor who pioneered sterile surgery.
Participants may receive maintenance doses of the mesothelioma vaccine at follow-up visits.
First received August 23, 2012
Last updated May 14, 2014
Sponsor Aduro BioTech, Inc.
Estimated Enrollment 40
Study Start Date August 2012
Estimated Completion Date December 2015
Purpose To evaluate the safety and immune response of the cancer vaccine CRS-207 followed by chemotherapy. CRS-207 is a weakened form of Listeria monocytogenes that has been genetically-modified to reduce its capacity to cause disease, while maintaining its ability to stimulate potent immune responses. This trial will evaluate whether giving CRS-207 cancer vaccine with chemotherapy will induce anti-tumor immune responses.
Primary Outcome Measures Number of patients reporting any adverse reactions; immune response to mesothelin measured at multiple times.
Eligibility
- A confirmed diagnosis of malignant pleural mesothelioma
- Life expectancy of more than six months
- Not a candidate for surgery
- No previous chemotherapy
Contacts and Locations
Yvonne Malory, RN
301-402-0255
malloryy@mail.nih.gov
Raffit Hassan, MD
301-451-8742
University of California at San Francisco
San Francisco, California, United States, 94115
Contact: Scott Hammond 415-885-3673 hammonds@cc.ucsf.edu
H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center
Tampa, Florida, United States, 33612
Contact: Germaine M González-Vazquez, BS, CCRP 813-745-8350 germaine.gonzalez-vazquez@moffitt.org
University of Chicago Medical Center
Chicago, Illinois, United States, 60637
Contact: Peter Ostiguy, BA 773-834-1472 postiguy@bsd.uchicago.edu
Contact: Jennifer Hull, RN, OCN 773-834-3137 jhull@medicine.bsd.uchicago.edu
National Cancer Institute
Bethesda, Maryland, United States, 20892
Contact: Yvonne Mallory, RN, BSN 301-402-0255 malloryy@mail.nih.gov
Principal Investigator: Raffit Hassan, MD
University of Pennsylvania Abramson Cancer Center
Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States, 19104
Contact: Mona Jacobs-Small, B.S., RRT, CCRC 215- 662-8632 Mona.Jacobs-Small@uphs.upenn.edu