Vaccine Therapy With or Without Biological Therapy in Treating Patients With Metastatic Melanoma
Completed · Phase 2
Conditions studied: Melanoma (Skin)
In brief
RATIONALE: Vaccines may make the body build an immune response to kill tumor cells. Biological therapies such as sargramostim and interferon alfa use different ways to stimulate the immune system and stop cancer cells from growing. It is not yet known if vaccine therapy if more effective with or without biological therapy for melanoma. PURPOSE: Randomized phase II trial to compare the effectiveness of vaccine therapy with or without biological therapy in treating patients who have metastatic melanoma.
Key facts
- Study ID
- NCT00006385
- Run by
- Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group
- Starts
- 2000-09-01
- Last updated by the study team
- 2011-11-08
Who can join
Age: 18 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.
Where it is running
- CCOP - Scottsdale Oncology Program — Scottsdale, Arizona, United States
- Emory University Hospital - Atlanta — Atlanta, Georgia, United States
- Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Atlanta (Decatur) — Decatur, Georgia, United States
- Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Lakeside Chicago — Chicago, Illinois, United States
- Robert H. Lurie Comprehensive Cancer Center, Northwestern University — Chicago, Illinois, United States
- CCOP - Evanston — Evanston, Illinois, United States
- CCOP - Carle Cancer Center — Urbana, Illinois, United States
- Indiana University Cancer Center — Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
- Veterans Affairs Medical Center - Indianapolis (Roudebush) — Indianapolis, Indiana, United States
- CCOP - Iowa Oncology Research Association — Des Moines, Iowa, United States
- CCOP - Wichita — Wichita, Kansas, United States
- CCOP - Ochsner — New Orleans, Louisiana, United States
- Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins — Baltimore, Maryland, United States
- Tuft-New England Medical Center — Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center — Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- CCOP - Kalamazoo — Kalamazoo, Michigan, United States
- CCOP - Northern New Jersey — Hackensack, New Jersey, United States
- Cancer Institute of New Jersey — New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States
- Albert Einstein Clinical Cancer Center — The Bronx, New York, United States
- Ireland Cancer Center — Cleveland, Ohio, United States
- CCOP - Toledo Community Hospital — Toledo, Ohio, United States
- CCOP - Geisinger Clinic and Medical Center — Danville, Pennsylvania, United States
- University of Pennsylvania Cancer Center — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
- Fox Chase Cancer Center — Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
- University of Pittsburgh Cancer Institute — Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, United States
Full record on ClinicalTrials.gov
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