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Brief Title: AlloStim® In-Situ Vaccine in Pre-Treated Metastatic Colorectal Cancer
Official Title: A Phase II/III, Randomized, Open Label, Controlled, Two Arm Study Comparing Overall Survival of AlloStim® Combined With Cryoablation to a Physician's Choice Combined With Cryoablation in 3rd Line Treatment for Metastatic Colorectal Cancer
Study ID: NCT01741038
Brief Summary: This is a personalized anti-cancer vaccine protocol which includes an in-situ (in the body) cancer vaccine step which combines killing a single metastatic tumor lesion by use of cryoablation in order to cause the release of tumor-specific markers to the immune system and then injecting bioengineered allogeneic immune cells (AlloStim) into the lesion as an adjuvant in order to modulate the immune response and educate the immune system to kill other tumor cells where ever they reside in the body.
Detailed Description: Colorectal cancer (CRC) ranks as the third most common cancer worldwide. Metastasis is the main reason of death in CRC patients. The current drugs used to treat colorectal cancer provide important treatment options for patients, their limitations including drug resistance, poor efficacy and severe side effects. Development of new therapeutic strategies for KRAS mutant as well as BRAF mutant tumors are therefore highly needed in order to offer a new category of drug (immunotherapy). This study targets the population of mCRC patients that have progressed after two lines of chemotherapy and are not eligible for targeted therapies due to a mutation in KRAS or BRAF. This is a Phase II/III, randomized, open-label, multicenter, controlled, two arm study designed to determine the efficacy in terms of OS and the safety of the InSituVax (AlloStim+ Cryoablation) personalized in-situ anti-cancer vaccine protocol (Treatment Arm) compared with Physician's Choice (PC) of Treatment + Cryoablation (Control Arm) in Metastatic Colorectal Cancer. Subjects are randomized 2:1 into the treatment or control arms.
Minimum Age: 18 Years
Eligible Ages: ADULT, OLDER_ADULT
Sex: ALL
Healthy Volunteers: No
National Cancer Institute of Thailand, Bangkok, , Thailand
Name: Wirote Lausoontornsiri, MD
Affiliation: National Cancer Institute of Thailand
Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR
Name: Thu Bui, BS
Affiliation: Immunovative Therapies, Ltd.
Role: STUDY_DIRECTOR