lung cancer
Conditions
Interventions
Sponsors
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
Inclusion criteria: The subjects must be satisfactory the following conditions. 1) Patients with standard therapy failed non-small cell lung cancer(Stage IIIB/IV or recurrence).Presence of target lesion is not considered. 2) Patients must be at a score level 0-1 of ECOG performance status. 3) Patients must have IgGs reactive to at least two of candidate peptides belongs to an apropriate group(s) for patient's HLA types. 4) Patients must be expected to survive more than 3 months. 5) Patients must satisfy the followings. WBC is more than 2500 per mm3 Lymphocyte is more than 1000 per mm3 Hb is more than 8.0 g per dL Platelet is more than 80000 per mm3 Serum creatinine is less than 2 times upper limit of normal. Total bilirubin is less than 2 times upper limit of normal. (for constitutional jaundice, 2.5 times less or equal) 6) Patients must be more than 20 years old. 7) Written informed consent must be obtained from patients. 8) Patients must be positive for HLA-A2, A24, A26, A3, A11, A31 or A33.
Exclusion criteria
Exclusion criteria: The following patients must be excluded. 1) Patients with severe symptoms (active and severe infectious disease, circulatory disease, respiratory disease, kidney disease, immunodeficiency, disturbance of coagulation). 2) Patients with the past history of severe allergic reactions. 3) (Females) Patients who are during pregnancy, lactation expectant, and desiring future fertility. (Males) Patients do not accept contraception during the 1st vaccination to 70 days after the last vaccination. 4) Patients with pulmonary disorder ( idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis,interstitial pneumonia,pneumoconiosis,radiation pneumonia,drug-induced pneumonia). 5) Patients who are judged inappropriate for the clinical trial by doctors. 6)Active double cancer (synchronous double cancer and metachronous double cancer within 5 disease-free years), excluding carcinoma in situ (lesions equal to intraepithelial or intramucosal cancer) judged to have been cured with local treatment.
Design outcomes
Primary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| Evaluation of immune responses (anti-peptide IgG,CTL) before and after personalized peptide vaccination. | — |
Secondary
| Measure | Time frame |
|---|---|
| 1. overall survival 2. Adverse events of personalized peptide vaccination. Adverse events are evaluated by the NCI-CTCAE. | — |
Countries
Japan
Contacts
Kurume University Research Center for Innovative Cancer Therapy, Cancer Vaccine Development Division