Harvesting Cells for Experimental Cancer Treatments

NCT ID: NCT00068003

Last Updated: 2025-12-26

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Basic Information

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Recruitment Status

ENROLLING_BY_INVITATION

Total Enrollment

7000 participants

Study Classification

OBSERVATIONAL

Study Start Date

2003-09-08

Brief Summary

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Background:

The NCI Surgery Branch has developed experimental therapies that involve taking white blood cells from patients' tumor or from their blood, growing them in the laboratory in large numbers, and then giving the cells back to the patient.

Objective:

This study will collect white blood cells from normal volunteers and white blood cells and/or tumor cells, from patients who have been screened for and are eligible for a NCI Surgery Branch treatment protocol. The cells collected from normal volunteers will be used as growth factors for the cells during the period of laboratory growth. The cells and/or tumor from patients will be used to make the cell treatment product.

Eligibility:

Patients must be eligible for a NCI Surgery Branch Treatment Protocol

Normal Volunteers must meet the criteria for blood donation

Design

Both patients and normal Volunteers will undergo apheresis. Patients will then undergo further testing as required by the treatment protocol.

There is no required follow up for normal volunteers.

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Detailed Description

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Background:

There are numerous clinical trials underway in the National Cancer Institute Surgery Branch (NCI-SB) in which patients are administered autologous lymphocytes with anti-tumor activity generated from either peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC) or tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes (TIL). All adoptive cell therapy protocols require that certain cell criteria be evaluated and met prior to enrollment.

This protocol is also designed to serve as a biorepository for samples and associated data collected on patients enrolled on NCI-SB protocols, current and historical. Patients who were enrolled prior to 2003 were not enrolled on this protocol. Their tissue and data will now be retained on this protocol for long-term storage. The protocol is concerned with the retention of serum, CSF, bone marrow, ascites fluid, PBMCs, tumor, healthy tissue samples, and CD34 purified HSCS samples collected from patients with cancer to support basic science and clinical research activities of the NCI-SB at the NIH Clinical Research Center and Center for Cancer Research.

Objectives:

To obtain autologous blood, stem cells, and/or tumor tissue from patients currently with cancer for laboratory analysis and ex vivo generation of autologous anti-tumor lymphocytes for potential future enrollment on an NCI-SB adoptive cell therapy clinical trial.

To obtain allogeneic PBMC via apheresis, whole blood, or other blood products from healthy volunteers, for use in generating anti-tumor patient lymphocytes ex vivo.

To conduct genomic, proteomic, and immunologic research studies on samples collected from patients with a current diagnosis of cancer.

Eligibility:

Patients with cancer must be \>= 18 years of age and meet the laboratory safety testing for infection included in all treatment trials.

Healthy volunteers for PBMC donation must meet the safety evaluation criteria established by the FDA for donation of blood products. They must also meet the strict behavioral and medical history requirements.

Healthy volunteers for whole blood donation must meet the safety evaluation criteria established by the NIH Clinical Center Department of Transfusion Medicine (DTM) Blood Bank for screening of allogeneic whole blood donors.

Design:

Once a cancer patient is determined to be a potential candidate for one of the NCI-SB clinical trials, they will undergo an apheresis and/or tumor resection for future treatment and/or research purposes. In addition, this protocol will allow for the apheresis of healthy volunteers for allogeneic PBMC or donation of whole blood for processing into serum for use in generating autologous anti-tumor lymphocytes in the laboratory, or for research purposes.

No treatments, investigational or standard therapy, will be administered on this protocol.

Conditions

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Melanoma Gastrointestinal Cancer Metastatic Cancer Breast Cancer Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer

Keywords

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Adoptive Cell Therapy Screening Cell Harvest Blood Tumor Tissue Natural History

Study Design

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Observational Model Type

COHORT

Study Time Perspective

PROSPECTIVE

Study Groups

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1/Cancer Patients

Patients with a current diagnosis of cancer

Anti-CD19 CAR PBL

Intervention Type DRUG

2/Healthy Volunteers

Healthy volunteers

No interventions assigned to this group

Interventions

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Anti-CD19 CAR PBL

Intervention Type DRUG

Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria

* Patients must have a form of cancer currently being studied in the NCI-SB.
* Patient is able to understand and willing to sign a written informed consent document.
* Age greater than or equal to 18 years.
* Clinical performance status of ECOG 0 or 1.
* Serology

* Seronegative for HIV antibody. (The experimental treatments being evaluated depend upon an intact immune system. Patients who are HIV seropositive can have decreased immune-competence and thus may be less responsive to the experimental treatment and more susceptible to its toxicities).
* Seronegative for hepatitis B surface antigen and seronegative for hepatitis C antibody. If hepatitis C antibody test is positive, then the patient must be tested for the presence of antigen by RT-PCR and be HCV RNA negative.
* Lesions which will be harvested for the generation of TIL should be accessible via standard surgical or radiological techniques and be associated with acceptable morbidity.


* Age greater than or equal to 18 years.
* Non-reactive for HBsAg, anti-HBc, anti-HCV, anti-HIV-1/2, HBV/HCV/HIV-1 NAT, anti-HTLV-I/II, anti-T. cruzi, West Nile Virus NAT,syphilis, and babesia.
* PBMC donors must meet the strict behavioral and medical history requirements as per applicable NCI-SB Apheresis Donor SOP(s).


* Age greater than or equal to 18 years.

Exclusion Criteria

* Active systemic infections, coagulation disorders, or other major medical illnesses of the cardiovascular, respiratory, or immune system.
* Patients who cannot give proper informed consent to the experimental therapy due to an active psychiatric disorder or inability to understand the nature of the proposed therapy and attendant risk.
* Women of child-bearing potential who are pregnant because of the potentially dangerous effects of some of the procedures (e.g., tumor biopsy or surgery for tumor resection) on the fetus.

ELIGIBILITY CRITERIA FOR HEALTHY VOLUNTEERS:


* Has had babesiosis.
* Is at risk or has Creutzfeldt-Jakob Disease.
* Is on steroid therapy or any other medication or has received vaccination that might interfere with cell preparation per Principal Investigator s (PI) discretion.
* Has ongoing illness that would cause harm to the volunteer during the apheresis procedure as determined by the PI.
* Has had yellow jaundice, liver disease, or hepatitis since the age of 11.
* Has uncontrolled diabetes.
* Has a hematologic malignancy or any bleeding abnormalities.
* Has received any type of organ transplant in the past 12 months.
* Has undergone xenotransplantation at any time.
* Has received a dura mater graft.
* If female, is pregnant or has given birth within the last six weeks.
* Has had an ear or body piercing or tattoos within the past 12 months.
* Has had a blood transfusion within the past 12 months.
* Has spent time outside the United States to a restricted country.
* Has participated in any high-risk activities.


\- Whole blood donors who do not meet the DTM criteria for allogeneic whole blood donation.
Minimum Eligible Age

18 Years

Eligible Sex

ALL

Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Yes

Sponsors

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National Cancer Institute (NCI)

NIH

Sponsor Role lead

Responsible Party

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Responsibility Role SPONSOR

Principal Investigators

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Steven A Rosenberg, M.D.

Role: PRINCIPAL_INVESTIGATOR

National Cancer Institute (NCI)

Locations

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National Institutes of Health Clinical Center

Bethesda, Maryland, United States

Site Status

Countries

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United States

References

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Dudley ME, Wunderlich JR, Robbins PF, Yang JC, Hwu P, Schwartzentruber DJ, Topalian SL, Sherry R, Restifo NP, Hubicki AM, Robinson MR, Raffeld M, Duray P, Seipp CA, Rogers-Freezer L, Morton KE, Mavroukakis SA, White DE, Rosenberg SA. Cancer regression and autoimmunity in patients after clonal repopulation with antitumor lymphocytes. Science. 2002 Oct 25;298(5594):850-4. doi: 10.1126/science.1076514. Epub 2002 Sep 19.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 12242449 (View on PubMed)

Vogelstein B, Papadopoulos N, Velculescu VE, Zhou S, Diaz LA Jr, Kinzler KW. Cancer genome landscapes. Science. 2013 Mar 29;339(6127):1546-58. doi: 10.1126/science.1235122.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 23539594 (View on PubMed)

Robbins PF, Lu YC, El-Gamil M, Li YF, Gross C, Gartner J, Lin JC, Teer JK, Cliften P, Tycksen E, Samuels Y, Rosenberg SA. Mining exomic sequencing data to identify mutated antigens recognized by adoptively transferred tumor-reactive T cells. Nat Med. 2013 Jun;19(6):747-52. doi: 10.1038/nm.3161. Epub 2013 May 5.

Reference Type BACKGROUND
PMID: 23644516 (View on PubMed)

Levin N, Kim SP, Marquardt CA, Vale NR, Yu Z, Sindiri S, Gartner JJ, Parkhurst M, Krishna S, Lowery FJ, Zacharakis N, Levy L, Prickett TD, Benzine T, Ray S, Masi RV, Gasmi B, Li Y, Islam R, Bera A, Goff SL, Robbins PF, Rosenberg SA. Neoantigen-specific stimulation of tumor-infiltrating lymphocytes enables effective TCR isolation and expansion while preserving stem-like memory phenotypes. J Immunother Cancer. 2024 May 30;12(5):e008645. doi: 10.1136/jitc-2023-008645.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 38816232 (View on PubMed)

White BS, Sindiri S, Hill V, Gasmi B, Nah S, Gartner JJ, Prickett TD, Li Y, Gurusamy D, Robbins P, Rosenberg SA, Leko V. Specific recognition of an FGFR2 fusion by tumor infiltrating lymphocytes from a patient with metastatic cholangiocarcinoma. J Immunother Cancer. 2023 Apr;11(4):e006303. doi: 10.1136/jitc-2022-006303.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 37045473 (View on PubMed)

Zacharakis N, Huq LM, Seitter SJ, Kim SP, Gartner JJ, Sindiri S, Hill VK, Li YF, Paria BC, Ray S, Gasmi B, Lee CC, Prickett TD, Parkhurst MR, Robbins PF, Langhan MM, Shelton TE, Parikh AY, Levi ST, Hernandez JM, Hoang CD, Sherry RM, Yang JC, Feldman SA, Goff SL, Rosenberg SA. Breast Cancers Are Immunogenic: Immunologic Analyses and a Phase II Pilot Clinical Trial Using Mutation-Reactive Autologous Lymphocytes. J Clin Oncol. 2022 Jun 1;40(16):1741-1754. doi: 10.1200/JCO.21.02170. Epub 2022 Feb 1.

Reference Type DERIVED
PMID: 35104158 (View on PubMed)

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Other Identifiers

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03-C-0277

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: secondary_id

030277

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: org_study_id

NCT00897195

Identifier Type: -

Identifier Source: nct_alias