Prostate Cancer
Conditions
Keywords
Prostate, Cancer, Advanced prostate cancer, Metastatic, Hormone-refractory, GVAX, Vaccine, Allogeneic cells
Brief summary
The objective of this study is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of a prime-boost dose schedule of Human GM-CSF Gene Transduced Irradiated Prostate Allogeneic Cancer Vaccine (Allogeneic Prostate GVAX®) as measured by standard toxicity evaluation, changes in PSA, and tumor responses. Additional objectives are to measure the time to PSA and/or clinical disease progression as well as local and systemic immune responses to the vaccine.
Interventions
Sponsors
Study design
Eligibility
Inclusion criteria
* Diagnosis of adenocarcinoma prostate cancer * Prostate cancer deemed to be unresponsive or refractory to hormone therapy * An ECOG performance status of 0 or 1
Exclusion criteria
* Transitional cell, small cell, neuroendocrine, or squamous cell prostate cancer * Previous chemotherapy, biological or immunotherapy for cancer * Previous gene therapy for cancer * Significant cancer related pain