OPT-821 With or Without Vaccine Therapy in Treating Patients With Ovarian Epithelial Cancer, Fallopian Tube Cancer, or Peritoneal Cancer in Second or Third Complete Remission

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To determine if a polyvalent vaccine (including GM2-keyhole limpet hemocyanin [KLH], Globo-H-KLH, Tn-mucin 1 [MUC1]-32mer-KLH, and Thompson Friedreich antigen [TF]-KLH plus OPT-821) decreases the hazard of progression or death compared to a vaccine containing OPT-821 alone in women with epithelial ovarian, fallopian tube, or peritoneal cancer in second or third complete clinical remission.

SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To compare the treatment arms with respect to the incidence of toxicities. II. To determine if the polyvalent vaccine decreases the hazard of death compared to a vaccine containing OPT-821 alone in women with epithelial ovarian, fallopian tube, or peritoneal cancer in second or third complete clinical remission.

TERTIARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To evaluate the immune response (by enzyme linked immunosorbent assay [ELISA]) in participants, in order to determine if the outcome correlates with antigen-specific immune titers.

OUTLINE: Patients are randomized to 1 of 2 treatment arms.

ARM I: Patients receive polyvalent antigen-KLH conjugate vaccine and immunological adjuvant OPT-821 subcutaneously (SC) once in weeks 1, 2, 3, 7, 11, 23, 35, 47, 59, 71, and 83 in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.

ARM II: Patients receive immunological adjuvant OPT-821 SC as in Arm I.

After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up every 3 months for 2 years, every 6 months for 3 years, and then annually thereafter.

Inclusion criteria

• Patients with histologically documented epithelial carcinoma arising in the ovary, fallopian tube, or peritoneum, of any stage or grade at diagnosis; all patients must have had cytoreductive surgery and chemotherapy with at least one platinum-based chemotherapy regimen as part of primary treatment
• Patients who recurred on or after initial therapy, and are now in a second or third complete clinical remission and who are within four months of their last treatment are eligible; complete clinical remission is defined as serum cancer antigen (CA)-125 within institutional normal limits, negative physical examination, and no definite evidence of disease by computed tomography (CT) of the abdomen and pelvis; lymph nodes and/or soft tissue abnormalities =< 1.0 cm are often present in the pelvis and will not be considered definite evidence of disease; eligibility is determined by anatomical imaging only (ie. magnetic resonance imaging [MRI] or CT); a positive positron emission tomography (PET) image (if performed) will not exclude a patient if other criteria are met and anatomical imaging is negative
• Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) greater than or equal to 1,000/mm^3, equivalent to Common Toxicity Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE version [v]4.0) grade 1
• Platelets greater than or equal to 100,000/mm^3
• Serum creatinine less than or equal to 1.5 x institutional upper limit normal (ULN), CTCAE v4.0 grade 1
• Bilirubin less than or equal to 2.5 x ULN
• Serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase (SGOT), serum glutamate pyruvate transaminse (SGPT) less than or equal to 2.5 x ULN
• Alkaline phosphatase less than or equal to 2.5 x ULN
• Patients must have a Gynecological Oncology Group (GOG) performance status of 0, 1, or 2
• Patients who have signed the informed consent document and signed the authorization permitting release of personal health information
• Patients of childbearing potential must have a negative serum pregnancy test prior to study entry and must be practicing an effective form of birth control; nursing mothers are excluded

Exclusion criteria

• With the exception of non-melanoma skin cancer, patients with other invasive malignancies who had (or have) any evidence of the other cancer present within the last 5 years or whose previous cancer treatment contraindicates this protocol therapy are excluded
• Patients whose circumstances at the time of entry onto the protocol would not permit completion of study or required follow up
• Patients who have an allergy to shellfish