Vaccine Therapy in Treating Patients With Metastatic Prostate Cancer That Has Not Responded to Hormone Therapy

Completed · Phase 3 · Has a placebo group

Conditions studied: Prostate Cancer

In brief

Rationale: Vaccines may make the body build an immune response to kill tumor cells. It is not yet known if vaccine therapy is effective for prostate cancer. Purpose: Randomized phase III trial to determine the effectiveness of vaccine therapy in treating patients who have metastatic prostate cancer that has not responded to hormone therapy.

Key facts

Study ID

NCT00005947

Run by

Dendreon

People needed

127

Starts

1999-11-01

Expected to finish

2004-09-01

Last updated by the study team

2010-11-01

Who can join

Age: 18 and older. Sex: male. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

Where it is running

• Cancer Center and Beckman Research Institute, City of Hope — Duarte, California, United States
• Loma Linda University Medical Center — Loma Linda, California, United States
• Cancer and Blood Institute of the Desert — Rancho Mirage, California, United States
• Eisenhower Medical Center — Rancho Mirage, California, United States
• Sidney Kimmel Cancer Center — San Diego, California, United States
• UCSF Cancer Center and Cancer Research Institute — San Francisco, California, United States
• Office of Glenn Tisman — Whittier, California, United States
• Office of Barry S. Berman — Orlando, Florida, United States
• Mayo Clinic Cancer Center — Rochester, Minnesota, United States
• Hackensack University Medical Center — Hackensack, New Jersey, United States
• St. Barnabas Medical Center — Livingston, New Jersey, United States
• Morristown Memorial Hospital — Morristown, New Jersey, United States
• Albany Regional Cancer Center — Albany, New York, United States
• Center for Medical Oncology — Garden City, New York, United States
• St. Vincents Comprehensive Cancer Center — New York, New York, United States
• NYU School of Medicine's Kaplan Comprehensive Cancer Center — New York, New York, United States
• St. Luke's-Roosevelt Hospital — New York, New York, United States
• New York Presbyterian Hospital - Cornell Campus — New York, New York, United States
• University of Rochester Cancer Center — Rochester, New York, United States
• Albert Einstein Comprehensive Cancer Center — The Bronx, New York, United States
• New York Medical College — Valhalla, New York, United States
• AKSM Clinical Research Corporation — Columbus, Ohio, United States
• Earle A. Chiles Research Institute at Providence Portland Medical Center — Portland, Oregon, United States
• Abington Hematology Oncology Associates, Incorporated — Abington, Pennsylvania, United States
• Bryn Mawr Urology — Bryn Mawr, Pennsylvania, United States

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