Vaccine Therapy and GM-CSF in Treating Patients With Recurrent or Metastatic Melanoma

Completed · Phase 2

Conditions studied: Melanoma (Skin)

In brief

RATIONALE: Vaccines made from a person's tumor cells and white blood cells may help the body build an effective immune response to kill tumor cells. Colony-stimulating factors, such as GM-CSF, increase the number of white blood cells and platelets found in bone marrow or peripheral blood. Giving vaccine therapy together with GM-CSF may be an effective treatment for melanoma. PURPOSE: This randomized phase II trial is studying two different vaccine therapy regimens to compare how well they work when given together with GM-CSF in treating patients with recurrent or metastatic melanoma.

Key facts

Study ID
NCT00436930
Run by
Hoag Memorial Hospital Presbyterian
People needed
200
Starts
2006-12-01
Expected to finish
2012-10-01
Last updated by the study team
2014-01-10

Who can join

Age: 16 and older. Sex: any. Healthy volunteers: not accepted.

Where it is running

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