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Table 3 Ongoing clinical trials of DC vaccines in patients with AML/MDS, melanoma, glioma/glioblastoma, lung cancers, prostate cancer and lymphoma

From: Research progress on dendritic cell vaccines in cancer immunotherapy

Type of cancer

NCT ID

Stage of disease

Phase

Source of DC

DC methods

Primary outcomes

AML/MDS

NCT00965224

AML CR with high risk of relapse or previous relapse

II

Autologous DCs

WT1 mRNA-electroporated autologous DCs

Immunogenicity of DC vaccines

NCT01096602

AML

II

Autologous DCs

DC AML vaccine combined with PD-1 blockade

Toxicity

NCT01146262

AML first or second CR

I/II

Autologous DCs

Leukemic apoptotic corpse autologous pulsed DCs

Adverse events

NCT01686334

Relapsed adult non-M3 AML

II

Autologous DCs

WT1 mRNA-electroporated DCs

OS

NCT03059485

AML at initial diagnosis or first relapse

II

Autologous DCs

DC/AML cell vaccine

PFS

NCT03291444

Relapsed/refractory leukemia/MDS

I

Autologous DCs

Eps8 peptide-specific DCs

Adverse events

NCT03679650

AML with allogeneic transplantation

I

Autologous DCs

DC/AML cell fusion vaccine

Fold-increase in AML-specific T cells in the peripheral blood and bone marrow

NCT03697707

AML in remission with persistent MRD

II

Allogeneic DCs

25E6 cells/vaccination of DCP-001

MRD

Melanoma

NCT00004025

Melanoma (skin)

I/II

Autologous DCs

Autologous dendritic cells transduced with adenoviruses encoding the MART-1 and gp100 melanoma antigens with or without interleukin-2

Safety, dose-limiting toxicity, and maximum tolerated dose

NCT00017355

Melanoma (skin)

I

Autologous DCs

Autologous DC vaccines made from a patient’s white blood cells mixed with tumor antigens

Safety and tolerability and longevity of melanoma-specific immunity

NCT00085397

Melanoma (skin)

II

Autologous DCs

Autologous DCs pulsed with gp100 antigen and autologous DCs fused with autologous tumor cells

Immune response

NCT00126685

Melanoma (skin)

I/II

Autologous DCs

Autologous dendritic cells (DC) transfected with autologous polymerase chain reaction-amplified tumor RNA

Safety, immunogenicity, objective tumor response, time to disease progression, progression-free interval, OS

NCT00338377

Melanoma

II

Autologous DCs

Lymphodepletion plus adoptive cell transfer with or without DC immunization in patients with metastatic melanoma

Objective response (OR), longitudinal immune response, overall response rate (ORR)

NCT01082198

Melanoma (skin)

I/II

Autologous DCs

Autologous dendritic cells pulsed with tumor antigen peptides

Immune response, disease-free survival, OS, AEs

NCT01331915

Melanoma

I/II

Autologous DCs

Proteinic vector targeting DCs coupled to a melanoma antigen,

Safety and toxicity, immune response

NCT01456104

Melanoma

I

Autologous DCs

Autologous Langerhans-type DCs electroporated with mRNA encoding a tumor-associated antigen

Safety, toxicity

NCT01753089

Melanoma

I

Autologous DCs

DC activating scaffold incorporating autologous melanoma cell lysate (WDVAX)

Feasibility, safety and biologic activity

NCT01946373

Melanoma

II

Autologous DCs

Adoptive T cell transfer with or without DC vaccination

Safety

NCT01973322

Malignant melanoma of skin stage III/IV

II

Autologous DCs

Autologous tumor lysates

Safety, tolerability and feasibility, immune related disease control rate, immunologic efficacy

NCT01983748

Uveal melanoma

III

Autologous DCs

Adjuvant vaccination with tumor RNA-loaded autologous DCs

Overall survival

NCT02301611

Melanoma

II

Autologous DCs

Vaccine containing autologous tumor lysate (TL) + yeast cell wall particles (YCWPs) + DCs

Disease-free survival assessment

NCT02334735

Melanoma

II

Autologous DCs

Mature DC as an adjuvant for NY-ESO-1 and melan-A/MART-1 peptide vaccination

Humoral immune response, cytokine secretion

NCT02993315

Melanoma (skin)

III

Autologous DCs

Natural DCs pulsed with synthetic peptides

Recurrence-free survival rate

NCT03092453

Advanced melanoma

I

Autologous DCs

Mature DC vaccination against mutated antigens in patients with advanced melanoma

Immune response of specific T cells

NCT03325101

Stage IIIA/B cutaneous melanoma

I/II

Autologous DCs

Autologous DCs therapy delivered intratumorally after cryoablation in combination with pembrolizumab

Tumor response rate

NCT04093323

Refractory melanoma

II

Autologous DCs

Type-1 polarized DC vaccine in combination with tumor-selective chemokine modulation

Objective response rate (ORR)

NCT04335890

Uveal metastatic melanoma

I

Autologous DCs

Mature DCs loaded with autologous tumor-RNA + RNA encoding defined antigens and driver mutations

Safety, tolerability, dose-limiting toxicities, maximum tolerated dose

Glioma/Glioblastoma

NCT01204684

Glioma, anaplastic astrocytoma, anaplastic astro oligodendroglioma, glioblastoma

II

Autologous DCs

Autologous tumor lysate-pulsed DC vaccination

Time to tumor progression and overall survival

NCT01291420

Glioblastoma, renal cell carcinoma, sarcomas, breast cancers, malignant mesothelioma, colorectal tumors

I/II

Autologous DCs

Intradermal vaccination with autologous RNA-modified DCs-engineered to express the WT1 protein

Immunogenicity of intradermal DC vaccination

NCT01567202

Glioma, glioblastoma multiforme

II

Autologous DCs

DCs loaded with glioma stem-like cell-associated antigens against brain glioblastoma multiforme

ORR, PFS, OS

NCT01808820

Malignant glioma, glioblastoma multiforme, anaplastic astrocytoma, high grade glioma

I

Autologous DCs

Patients derived DC vaccine

Safety and toxicity, AEs

NCT01957956

Giant cell glioblastoma, glioblastoma, gliosarcoma

I

Autologous DCs

Malignant glioma tumor lysate-pulsed autologous DC vaccine

Safety and toxicity

NCT02366728

Glioblastoma, grade IV astrocytoma, giant cell glioblastoma, glioblastoma multiforme

II

Autologous DCs

Human CMV pp65-LAMP mRNA-pulsed autologous DCs

Median OS, median PFS

NCT02465268

Glioblastoma multiforme, malignant glioma, grade IV astrocytoma

II

Autologous DCs

pp65-shLAMP DCs with GM-CSF

Median OS, median PFS

NCT02771301

Glioma

N/A

Autologous DCs

IDH1R132H-DC vaccine specifically targeting the IDH1R132H mutation

Safety and efficacy

NCT02772094

Glioblastoma multiforme, glioblastoma

II

Autologous DCs

Autologous DCs loaded with irradiated autologous tumor cells

OS, AEs

NCT03360708

Giant cell glioblastoma, recurrent glioblastoma, recurrent gliosarcoma

I

Autologous DCs

Malignant glioma tumor lysate-pulsed autologous DC vaccine

Safety and toxicity

NCT03395587

Glioblastoma

II

Autologous DCs

Tumor lysate-loaded autologous mature DC vaccine

OS, PFS, AEs

NCT04201873

Recurrent glioblastoma

I

Autologous DCs

Autologous tumor lysate-pulsed DC vaccine

AEs, PFS, OS

NCT04523688

Glioblastoma

II

Autologous DCs

Autologous DC vaccine loaded with autologous tumor homogenate

AEs, OS

NCT04552886

Glioblastoma

I

Autologous DCs

TH-1 personalized DC vaccine

Safety and toxicity, Aes

NCT04963413

Glioblastoma

I

Autologous DCs

Autologous DCs derived from PBMCs loaded with RNA encoding the human CMV matrix protein pp65-flLAMP plus GM-CSF

Proportion of patients for whom CMV pp65 RNA-pulsed DC vaccines can be generated

Lung Cancers

NCT04082182

Metastatic NSCLC

I

Autologous DCs

Intravenous infusion or intradermal injection of MIDRIX4-LUNG DCs, a tetravalent autologous DC vaccine

Toxicity, safety and tolerability, maximal tolerated dose

NCT04487756

Extensive-stage SCLC

I/II

Autologous DCs

Intradermal injection autologous DC vaccine

PFS, AEs and SAEs (safety)

NCT04078269

NSCLC

I

Autologous DCs

Novel autologous neoantigen-targeted DC vaccine, MIDRIXNEO-LUNG

Safety and tolerability, toxicity, maximum tolerated and/or feasible dose

NCT03371485

NSCLC in the advanced and adjuvant settings

I

Allogeneic DCs

Intradermal injection of the allogeneic DC vaccine AST-VAC2 specifically targeting the hTERT protein

AEs

NCT03546361

AJCC v8 stage IV NSCLC

I

Autologous DCs

Autologous adenovirus CCL21gen-modified DC vaccine

Maximum tolerated dose (MTD)/maximum administered dose (MAD), ORR

NCT03871205

NSCLC, SCLC

I

Autologous DCs

Personalized autologous neoantigen-loaded DC vaccines

AEs (safety), immunogenicity of neoantigen-primed DC vaccines

NCT02140996

Epithelial cancers of the lung, breast, ovary, prostate and colon

I

Adenoviral vector vaccine

Ad-sig-hMUC-1/ecdCD40L, adenoviral vector encoding a fusion protein vector vaccine

Safety and tolerability, immunologically active dose level

NCT03406715

Relapsed SCLC

II

Autologous DCs

Vaccine inclduing autologous DCs with p53 gene insertion (Ad.p53-DC)

Disease control rate (DCR)

Prostate Cancer

NCT00005992

Prostate cancer

I

Autologous DCs

Recombinant prostate-specific membrane antigen (rPSMA)-pulsed autologous DCs (CaPVax)

Safety (AEs)

NCT01197625

Prostate cancer

I/II

Autologous DCs

Autologous DCs loaded with mRNA from primary prostate cancer tissue, hTERT and survivin

Time to treatment failure defined by two different measurements of PSA levels > 0.5 µg/L with a minimum interval of 4 weeks in patients receiving treatment

NCT02140996

Epithelial cancers of the lung, breast, ovary, prostate and colon

I

Adenoviral vector vaccine

Ad-sig-hMUC-1/ecdCD40L, adenoviral vector encoding a fusion protein vector vaccine

Safety and tolerability, immunologically active dose level

NCT02362451

Prostate cancer

II

Autologous DCs

Multiepitope TARP peptide autologous DC vaccine

Difference in rate of PSA change before and after treatment

NCT02362464

Prostate cancer

II

Autologous DCs

A multiepitope TARP peptide autologous DC vaccine

Safety (AEs)

Lymphoma

NCT01976585

Low-grade B cell lymphoma

I/II

Autologous DCs

Intratumoral injection of rhuFlt3L/CDX-301, Poly-ICLC, and tumor-antigen loaded DCs

Response rate

NCT03035331

Non-Hodgkin lymphoma

I/II

Autologous DCs

Intratumoral injection of autologous DCs into the cryoablated tumors

Maximum tolerated dose (MTD) proportion of complete responses at maximum tolerated dose (MTD)

NCT03789097

Non-Hodgkin lymphoma, metastatic breast cancer, and head and neck squamous cell carcinoma

I/II

Flt3L/CDX-301, poly-ICLC

In situ vaccination with Flt3L, radiation, and poly-ICLC

Dose limiting toxicity (DLT)

NCT00935597

Non-Hodgkin lymphoma, Hodgkin lymphoma, multiple myeloma, chronic lymphocytic leukemia

I

Autologous DCs

Host DC infusion after allo-HSCT

Incidence of severe graft versus host disease (GVHD)