Effective treatments are desperately needed for ovarian cancer patients. This phase I clinical trial assesses the safety of a novel personalized dendritic-cell vaccine administered to ovarian cancer patients. Secondary outcomes will be evaluated such as patient pharmacodynamics, progression-free survival and overall survival.
This is a single arm, non-randomized phase I study to evaluate the safety and feasibility of delivering a novel dendritic cell vaccine in 6 to 12 (n=6-12) adult patients diagnosed with ovarian cancer after undergoing surgical resection. The vaccine contains both tumor-associated antigen and patient specific neoantigens. Standard-of-care chemotherapy therapy will be followed as per routine,during which patients enrolled into this study will receive a personalized vaccine in addition to standard of care. Effective adjuvant therapies are urgently needed for these patients given that high rate of recurrence still occurs after standard of care with poor prognosis among ovarian cancer patients. The study is constructed in a 3+3 algorithm for two steps of dose escalation with rigorous and mandatory safety monitoring.
Study Type
INTERVENTIONAL
Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Enrollment
9
Biological: Dendritic Cell Immunotherapy Adult patients with histopathologically diagnosed Ovarian Cancer will be eligible for this novel, personalized dendritic cell vaccine during course of standard of care chemotherapy. If unacceptable side effects are observed at a total dose of 5x106, as detailed in the study protocol, then a cohort of 3-6 enrolled patients will receive a de-escalated total dendritic cell dose of 2.5x106. If no unacceptable side effects are identified at a total dose of 5x106, as detailed in the study protocol, then a cohort of 3-6 enrolled patients will receive an escalated total dendritic cell dose of 1X107.
west china second University, SICHUAN University, China
Chengdu, Sichuan, China
adverse events
Patients will be monitored for adverse events as dictated by CTCAE version 5.
Time frame: up to 18 months
Pharmacodynamics
percentage of antigen-specific T cells in peripheral blood.
Time frame: up to 1 week
PFS
Progression-free survival
Time frame: up to 18 months
OS
Overall survival
Time frame: up to 18 months
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