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NCT Number: NCT06435351

Personalized Dendritic Cell Vaccine Pilot for High Risk TNBC After Neoadjuvant Therapy

This is a pilot protocol to evaluate the safety, feasibility, and immunogenicity of a personalized breast cancer vaccine based utilizing whole exome sequencing data of a patient's residual breast tumor following neoadjuvant chemotherapy.

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Key information

Age range

18 year and older

Sex eligibility

All sexes

Study type

Interventional

Phase

Early Phase 1

Primary location

Moffitt Cancer Center

Tampa, Florida, 33612, United States

Location status: Recruiting

Location contact

Aixa Soyano Muller

SUB_INVESTIGATOR

Avan Armaghani

SUB_INVESTIGATOR

Brian Czerniecki

SUB_INVESTIGATOR

Christine Sam

SUB_INVESTIGATOR

Hatem Soliman, MD

CONTACT

Hatem Soliman, MD

PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

Heather Han

SUB_INVESTIGATOR

John Kiluk

SUB_INVESTIGATOR

Kimberly Lee

SUB_INVESTIGATOR

Laura Kruper

SUB_INVESTIGATOR

Loretta Loftus

SUB_INVESTIGATOR

Marie Lee

SUB_INVESTIGATOR

Martine Extermann

SUB_INVESTIGATOR

Mohammed Al-Jumayl

SUB_INVESTIGATOR

Nazanin Khakpour

SUB_INVESTIGATOR

Neveen Abdo

CONTACT

[email protected]

813-745-4412

Ricardo Costa

SUB_INVESTIGATOR

Susan Hoover

SUB_INVESTIGATOR

Tracey O'Connor

SUB_INVESTIGATOR

Who can participate

Healthy volunteers accepted: No

Only the study team can determine whether someone qualifies for participation.

Inclusion criteria

  • Patient has stage II-III ER/PR less than or equal to 10% HER2 negative by FISH and/or IHC breast cancer treated with standard of care neoadjuvant systemic chemotherapy and surgical resection with significant residual breast tumor (equivalent to RCB II or III) disease.
  • Patient has sufficient residual viable primary breast tumor or ipsilateral breast axillary nodal metastatic cancer tissue accessible to Moffitt for whole exome sequencing.
  • Patient is 18 years of age or older.
  • Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0-1
  • Patients must have adequate organ and marrow function.
  • Patients with a prior or concurrent malignancy whose natural history or treatment does not have the potential to interfere with the safety or efficacy assessment of the investigational regimen are eligible for this trial.
  • Patients without radiologic evidence of active metastatic disease and who are within 18 months of their last dose curative intent chemotherapy and/or radiotherapy (whichever is later) for the purposes of study enrollment.
  • Women of child-bearing potential must agree to use adequate contraception (hormonal or barrier method of birth control; abstinence) prior to study entry and for the duration of study participation. Should a woman become pregnant or suspect she is pregnant while she or her partner is participating in this study, she should inform her treating physician immediately.
  • Ability to understand and the willingness to sign a written informed consent document.

Exclusion criteria

  • Patients with known active locally advanced unresectable or metastatic cancer.
  • Patients with significant uncontrolled intercurrent illness or autoimmune disease requiring systemic immunosuppressants that would be deemed unsuitable to participate in the study by the Principal Investigator (PI).
  • Patients who have a medical issue in the opinion of the treating physician and/or PI that would make them unsuitable for pheresis.
  • Patients who are currently receiving any other investigational agents.
  • Patients with psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with study requirements.
  • Pregnant women are excluded from this study.

Treatment and study plan

Leukapheresis

Procedure

Removal of white blood cells (leukocytes) from the blood. The dendritic cells are harvested from the white blood cells that are collected and trained to recognize the specific abnormal proteins found in the tumor sample.

One needle is inserted in each arm. An apheresis machine removes blood from the vein in one arm, separates and retains the leukocytes from the blood, and then returns the rest of the blood to the other arm.

Dendritic Cell (DC) Vaccine

Biological

The vaccine will be given intranodally (inguinal or axillary) under ultrasound guidance using a dose of 40-50 million cells three times spaced 2 weeks apart for the initial priming sequence.

3 doses of the priming vaccines are given once every 2 weeks. 2 booster shots (if available) will be given 6 months and 12 months following completion of initial priming vaccines.

Primary outcomes

  1. Percentage of patients enrolled who successfully undergo at least one vaccination.

    Time frame: Up to 3 Years

    Successful production and administration of DC1 priming vaccination sequence in greater than 60% of patients enrolled.

Secondary outcomes

  1. Number of participants who achieve Immunogenicity after administration of vaccine

    Time frame: Up to 3 Years

    Immunogenicity will be determined by ELISpot and reactive T-Cell Receptor (TCR) expansion.

    ELISPot is an enzyme-linked immunospot assay. It is a highly sensitive immunoassay that measures the frequency of cytokine-secreting cells at the single-cell level.

  2. Disease Free Survival (DFS)

    Time frame: Up to 3 Years

    Disease Free Survival will be measured as the length of time after treatment to cancer recurrence or death from any cause.

Study contacts

Contact information is provided by the study sponsor or research team.

Neveen Abdo

CONTACT

[email protected]

813-745-4412

Sponsors and collaborators

Lead sponsor

H. Lee Moffitt Cancer Center and Research Institute

Other

Registry information

Official study title

Precision DC: Personalized Neoantigen Dendritic Cell Vaccine Pilot Trial for High Risk Triple Negative Breast Cancer After Neoadjuvant Therapy

Important dates

Study start
2024
Primary completion
2029
Study completion
2029
First posted
May 30, 2024
Registry last updated
Apr 1, 2026

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