A Vaccine Trial for Low Grade Gliomas

STATUS

Recruiting
End date

Dec 31, 2023
participants needed

25
sponsor

Ian F. Pollack, M.D.

Updated on 12 August 2021

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Summary

The study will assess the immunogenicity, safety and preliminary clinical efficacy of the glioma associated antigen (GAA)/tetanus toxoid (TT) peptide vaccine and poly-ICLC in HLA-A2+ children with unresectable low-grade gliomas that have received at least two chemotherapy/biologic regimens. Radiation therapy counts as one biologic regimen, but patients may not have received radiation to the index lesion within 1 year of enrollment.

Description

Patients will be treated with subcutaneous injections of GAA/TT-vaccines starting on Week 0 and every 3 weeks thereafter for up to 8 cycles or until Off-treatment criteria are met (Section 4.6). I.m. poly-ICLC will be administered (30ug/kg i.m.) immediately following the vaccine. Poly-ICLC should be administered i.m. within 3 cm of the peptide-injection site.

To allow for flexibility with scheduling, the peptide vaccine and Poly-ICLC dose may be given within one week of the date that the vaccine and poly-ICLC administration are due.

Patients will be evaluated for any possible adverse event, regimen limiting toxicity (RLT) as well as clinical/radiological responses by clinical visits and MRI scanning. Follow-up MRIs will be performed (Weeks 6, 15 and 24).

Details

Condition	Low Grade Glioma
Treatment	Experimental: HLA-A2 Restricted Glioma Antigen-Peptides with Poly-ICLC
Clinical Study Identifier	NCT02358187
Sponsor	Ian F. Pollack, M.D.
Last Modified on	12 August 2021

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Inclusion Criteria
	Tumor Type
	Unresectable low-grade gliomas that have received at least two chemotherapy/biologic regimens. Radiation therapy counts as a biologic regimen. Patients may not have received radiation therapy to the index lesion within 1 year of enrollment. Patients may have tumor spread within the central nervous system (CNS)
	HLA-A2 positive based on flow cytometry
	Patients must be clinically stable and off or on low-dose (no more than 0.1 mg/kg/day, max 4 mg/day Dexamethasone) corticosteroid for at least one week prior to study registration
	Patients must be 12 months and < 22 years of age at the time of HLA-A2 screening
	Patients must have a performance status of 70; (Karnofsky if > 16 years and Lansky if 16 years of age
	Documented negative serum beta-human chorionic gonadotropin (HCG) for female patients who are post-menarchal. Because the effect of the peptide-based vaccine and poly-ICLC on the fetus has not sufficiently been investigated, pregnant females will not be included in the study
	Patients must be free of systemic infection requiring IV antibiotics at the time of registration. Patients must be off IV antibiotics for at least 7 days prior to registration
	Patients with adequate organ function as measured by: Bone marrow: absolute neutrophil count (ANC) > 1,000/; Platelets > 100,000/ (transfusion independent); absolute lymphocyte count of 500/; Hemoglobin >8 g/dl (may be transfused). Hepatic: bilirubin < 1.5x institutional normal for age; serum glutamate pyruvate transaminase (SGPT) < 3x institutional normal
	Renal: Serum creatinine based on age or Creatinine clearance or radioisotope glomerular filtration rate (GFR) 70 ml/min/ml/min/1.73 m
	Patients must have recovered from the toxic effects of prior therapy to grade 1 or better. Patients must be at least 3 weeks from the last dose of standard cytotoxic chemotherapy or myelosuppressive biological therapy and at least 1 week from the last dose of non-myelosuppressive biologic therapy
	No overt cardiac, gastrointestinal, pulmonary or psychiatric disease
Exclusion Criteria
	Patients living outside of North America are not eligible
	Patients may not have received radiation to the index lesion within 1 year of enrollment
	Concurrent treatment or medications (must be off for at least 1 week) including
	Interferon (e.g. Intron-A)
	Allergy desensitization injections
	Growth factors (e.g. Procrit, Aranesp, Neulasta)
	Interleukins (e.g. Proleukin)
	Any investigational therapeutic medication
	Patients must not have a history of, or currently active autoimmune disorders requiring cytotoxic or immunosuppressive therapy, or autoimmune disorders with visceral involvement
	Use of immunosuppressives within four weeks prior to study entry or anticipated use of immunosuppressive agents. Dexamethasone, or other corticosteroid medications, if used in the peri-operative period must be tapered to no more than 0.1 mg/kg/day, max 4 mg/day dexamethasone for at least one week before study registration. Topical corticosteroids are acceptable
	Because patients with immune deficiency are not expected to respond to this therapy, HIV-positive patients are excluded from the study
	Patients who have received prior immunotherapy

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A Vaccine Trial for Low Grade Gliomas