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Personalized Neoantigen Peptide-Based Vaccine in Combination With Pembrolizumab for Treatment of Advanced Solid Tumors

This phase I/II trial tests the safety and tolerability of an experimental personalized vaccine when given by itself and with pembrolizumab in treating patients with solid tumor cancers that have spread to other places in the body (advanced). The experimental vaccine is designed target certain proteins (neoantigens) on individuals' tumor cells. Immunotherapy with monoclonal antibodies, such as pembrolizumab, may help the body's immune system attack the cancer, and may interfere with the ability of tumor cells to…

ClinicalTrials.gov IDNCT05269381
PhasePHASE1, PHASE2
Enrollment138
SponsorMayo Clinic
Age16 Years
SexALL
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Conditions studied

Anatomic Stage III Breast Cancer AJCC v8, Anatomic Stage IIIA Breast Cancer AJCC v8, Anatomic Stage IIIB Breast Cancer AJCC v8, Anatomic Stage IIIC Breast Cancer AJCC v8, Anatomic Stage IV Breast Cancer AJCC v8, Clinical Stage III Cutaneous Melanoma AJCC v8, Clinical Stage III Gastric Cancer AJCC v8, Clinical Stage III Gastroesophageal Junction Adenocarcinoma AJCC v8, Clinical Stage III Merkel Cell Carcinoma AJCC v8, Clinical Stage IV Cutaneous Melanoma AJCC v8, Clinical Stage IV Gastric Cancer AJCC v8, Clinical Stage IV Gastroesophageal Junction Adenocarcinoma AJCC v8, Clinical Stage IV Merkel Cell Carcinoma AJCC v8, Clinical Stage IVA Gastric Cancer AJCC v8, Clinical Stage IVA Gastroesophageal Junction Adenocarcinoma AJCC v8, Clinical Stage IVB Gastric Cancer AJCC v8, Clinical Stage IVB Gastroesophageal Junction Adenocarcinoma AJCC v8, Locally Advanced Cervical Carcinoma, Locally Advanced Endometrial Carcinoma, Locally Advanced Gastric Adenocarcinoma, Locally Advanced Gastroesophageal Junction Adenocarcinoma, Locally Advanced Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma, Locally Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma, Locally Advanced Lung Non-Small Cell Carcinoma, Locally Advanced Malignant Solid Neoplasm, Locally Advanced Melanoma, Locally Advanced Merkel Cell Carcinoma, Locally Advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma, Locally Advanced Skin Squamous Cell Carcinoma, Locally Advanced Triple-Negative Breast Carcinoma, Locally Advanced Unresectable Breast Carcinoma, Locally Advanced Unresectable Cervical Carcinoma, Locally Advanced Unresectable Gastric Adenocarcinoma, Locally Advanced Unresectable Gastroesophageal Junction Adenocarcinoma, Locally Advanced Unresectable Renal Cell Carcinoma, Locally Advanced Urothelial Carcinoma, Metastatic Cervical Carcinoma, Metastatic Endometrial Carcinoma, Metastatic Gastric Adenocarcinoma, Metastatic Gastroesophageal Junction Adenocarcinoma, Metastatic Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma, Metastatic Hepatocellular Carcinoma, Metastatic Lung Non-Small Cell Carcinoma, Metastatic Malignant Solid Neoplasm, Metastatic Melanoma, Metastatic Merkel Cell Carcinoma, Metastatic Renal Cell Carcinoma, Metastatic Skin Squamous Cell Carcinoma, Metastatic Triple-Negative Breast Carcinoma, Metastatic Urothelial Carcinoma, Skin Squamous Cell Carcinoma, Stage III Cervical Cancer AJCC v8, Stage III Hepatocellular Carcinoma AJCC v8, Stage III Lung Cancer AJCC v8, Stage III Renal Cell Cancer AJCC v8, Stage IIIA Cervical Cancer AJCC v8, Stage IIIA Hepatocellular Carcinoma AJCC v8, Stage IIIA Lung Cancer AJCC v8, Stage IIIA Uterine Corpus Cancer AJCC v8, Stage IIIB Cervical Cancer AJCC v8, Stage IIIB Hepatocellular Carcinoma AJCC v8, Stage IIIB Lung Cancer AJCC v8, Stage IIIB Uterine Corpus Cancer AJCC v8, Stage IIIC Lung Cancer AJCC v8, Stage IIIC Uterine Corpus Cancer AJCC v8, Stage IIIC1 Uterine Corpus Cancer AJCC v8, Stage IIIC2 Uterine Corpus Cancer AJCC v8, Stage IV Cervical Cancer AJCC v8, Stage IV Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma of the Head and Neck AJCC v8, Stage IV Hepatocellular Carcinoma AJCC v8, Stage IV Lung Cancer AJCC v8, Stage IV Renal Cell Cancer AJCC v8, Stage IVA Cervical Cancer AJCC v8, Stage IVA Hepatocellular Carcinoma AJCC v8, Stage IVA Lung Cancer AJCC v8, Stage IVA Uterine Corpus Cancer AJCC v8, Stage IVB Cervical Cancer AJCC v8, Stage IVB Hepatocellular Carcinoma AJCC v8, Stage IVB Lung Cancer AJCC v8, Stage IVB Uterine Corpus Cancer AJCC v8, Triple-Negative Breast Carcinoma, Unresectable Cervical Carcinoma, Unresectable Endometrial Carcinoma, Unresectable Gastric Adenocarcinoma, Unresectable Gastroesophageal Junction Adenocarcinoma, Unresectable Head and Neck Squamous Cell Carcinoma, Unresectable Hepatocellular Carcinoma, Unresectable Lung Non-Small Cell Carcinoma, Unresectable Malignant Solid Neoplasm, Unresectable Melanoma, Unresectable Merkel Cell Carcinoma, Unresectable Renal Cell Carcinoma, Unresectable Skin Squamous Cell Carcinoma, Unresectable Triple-Negative Breast Carcinoma, Unresectable Urothelial Carcinoma, Breast Adenocarcinoma, Stage III Uterine Corpus Carcinoma or Carcinosarcoma AJCC v8, Stage IV Uterine Corpus Carcinoma or Carcinosarcoma AJCC v8, Stage III Head and Neck Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma AJCC v8, Stage IV Head and Neck Cutaneous Squamous Cell Carcinoma AJCC v8, Invasive Breast Lobular Carcinoma

About this study

This phase I/II trial tests the safety and tolerability of an experimental personalized vaccine when given by itself and with pembrolizumab in treating patients with solid tumor cancers that have spread to other places in the body (advanced). The experimental vaccine is designed target certain proteins (neoantigens) on individuals' tumor cells. Immunotherapy with monoclonal antibodies, such as pembrolizumab, may help the body's immune system attack the cancer, and may interfere with the ability of tumor cells to grow and spread. Giving the personalized neoantigen peptide-based vaccine with pembrolizumab may be safe and effective in treating patients with advanced solid tumors.

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Eligibility information

Inclusion Criteria COHORT 1 and COHORT 2 are no longer enrolling. PHASE I PRE-REGISTRATION, ALL: * Willing to provide tissue specimens per protocol, or have clinically collected formalin-fixed paraffin-embedded (FFPE) tissue blocks, or available sequencing data available from commercial or research tests * NOTE 1: Includes fresh tissue specimen at pre-registration, or with or clinically collected FFPE tissue blocks for complete exome and transcriptome sequencing. Patients who had tumor sequencing under certain Mayo IRB protocols and neoantigen has been identified or REAL Neo vaccine produced are allowed to proceed to pre-registration and/or registration. * NOTE 2: This criteria will not apply to patients who had sequencing and neoantigen prediction previously completed. * Measurable disease as defined by RECIST (v 1.1) criteria or non-measurable disease * NOTE: Tumor lesions in previously irradiated area are not considered measurable disease * Patients with actionable genomic abnormality including, but not limited to EGFR, ALK, MET, ROS-1, RET, NTRK, KRAS or BRAF must have received and progressed on at least one line of prior FDA-approved targeted therapy * Provide written informed consent. For pediatric patients (age 16-17 years): * Written informed consent from legal guardian(s) and/or child obtained in accordance with local regulations. * Willing to return to enrolling institution for follow-up * Willing to provide blood specimens for research * Negative pregnancy test 7 days prior to pre-registration for persons of childbearing potential. * Willing to employ highly effective method of contraception from pre-registration through 6 months after final vaccine cycle * Willing to receive tetanus vaccination if subject has not had one ≤ 1 year prior to pre-registration * Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) Performance Status (PS) of 0 or 1 * Anticipated life expectancy \> 6 months * Recovered from all toxicities associated with prior treatment to acceptable baseline status (see specified inclusion limits for laboratory toxicity) or National Cancer Institute (NCI) Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) v5 Grade 0 or 1, except for toxicities not considered safety risk per treating investigator (e.g., alopecia or vitiligo). * The following lab values obtained ≤ 28 days prior to pre-registration: * Hemoglobin ≥ 9.0 g/dL (Must be ≥ 7 days after most recent transfusion) * Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) ≥ 1500/mm\^3 or ≥ 1.5 X 10\^9/L * Platelet count ≥ 100,000/mm\^3 or ≥ 100 X 10\^9/L (Must be ≥7 days after most recent transfusion) * Total bilirubin ≤ 1.5 x upper limit of normal (ULN) * Aspartate transaminase (AST) and alanine transaminase (ALT) ≤ 3 x ULN or ≤ 5 x ULN with liver metastases * Creatinine ≤ 1.5 x ULN OR calculated creatinine clearance must be ≥ 50 ml/min using Cockcroft-Gault formula * International normalized ratio (INR) or prothrombin time (PT) and activated partial thromboplastin time (aPTT) ≤ 1.5 x ULN unless patient is receiving anticoagulant therapy in which case PT or PTT must be within target range of therapy PHASE I REGISTRATION, ALL: * Successful sequencing and production of REAL-Neo vaccine * Measurable disease as defined by RECIST (v 1.1) criteria or non-measurable disease * NOTE: Tumor lesions in previously irradiated area are not considered measurable disease * ECOG PS 0 or 1 * Anticipated life expectancy \> 6 months * The following lab values obtained ≤ 14 days prior to registration: * Hemoglobin ≥ 9.0 g/dl * ANC ≥ 1500/mm\^3 * Platelet count ≥ 100,000/mm\^3 * Total bilirubin ≤ 1.5 x ULN * ALT and AST ≤ 3 x ULN (≤ 5 x ULN with liver involvement) * PT/INR and aPTT ≤ 1.5 x ULN unless patient is receiving anticoagulant therapy in which case INR or aPTT must be within target range of therapy * Calculated creatinine clearance ≥ 50 ml/min using Cockcroft-Gault formula * Provide written informed consent * Willing to provide blood and tissue specimens for research * Willing to return to enrolling institution for follow-up * Patients with actionable genomic abnormality including, but not limited to EGFR, ALK, MET, ROS-1, RET, NTRK, KRAS or BRAF must have also received and progressed on at least one line of prior FDA-approved targeted therapy * Negative pregnancy test ≤ 14 days prior to registration for persons of childbearing potential only * NOTE: If urine test cannot be confirmed negative, serum pregnancy test will be required * Willing to employ highly effective method of contraception from pre-registration through 6 months after final vaccine cycle * Willing to receive tetanus vaccination if subject has not had one ≤ 1 year prior to pre-registration * Recovered from all toxicities associated with prior treatment to acceptable baseline status or NCI CTCAE v5 Grade of 0 or 1, except for toxicities not considered safety risk per treating investigator (e.g., alopecia or vitiligo) PHASE II PRE-SCREENING COHORT 3 ONLY: * ECOG PS 0 or 1 * Histological confirmation of adenocarcinoma of the breast with estrogen receptor (ER) \< 10%, progesterone receptor (PR) \< 10%, and HER2 negative based on current American Society of Clinical Oncology (ASCO)/College of American Pathologists (CAP) guideline * Stage I-III based on 7th edition of TNM staging system from American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) * Evidence of residual disease ≥ 1 cm after neoadjuvant pembrolizumab-based chemotherapy on imaging for patients who have not had surgery * Willing to proceed with surgery and provide tissue and blood specimens for patients who have not had surgery, willing to provide clinically collected FFPE tissue blocks, or willing to provide available sequencing data available from commercial or research test * Provide written informed consent * Willing to return to enrolling institution for follow-up PHASE II PRE-SCREENING COHORT 4 ONLY: * ECOG PS 0 or 1 * Histological confirmation of lung NSCLC * No actionable EGFR mutations and ALK fusions * Stage II or stage III based on AJCC 8th * Tumor ≥ 2 cm on pre-surgery evaluation imaging (residual disease ≥ 2 cm after neoadjuvant therapy on pre-surgery evaluation imaging in patient who receives neoadjuvant therapy) for patients who have not had surgery. Patients with or without neoadjuvant chemotherapy or immunotherapy are allowed * Provide written informed consent * Willing to proceed with surgery and provide tissue and blood specimens for patients who have not had surgery * Willing to return to enrolling institution for follow-up PHASE II PRE-REGISTRATION COHORT 3 (TNBC) ONLY: * Histologically confirmed residual cancer burden 2 and 3 in surgical specimens PHASE II PRE-REGISTRATION COHORT 4 (NSCLC) ONLY: * Tumor without complete pathologic response is confirmed in pathology * Willing to employ highly effective method of contraception from pre-registration through 6 months after final vaccine cycle * ECOG PS of 0 or 1 * Anticipated life expectancy \> 6 months PHASE II PRE-REGISTRATION PILOT AND COHORT 5: * Provide written informed consent. For pediatric patients (age 16-17 years): * Written informed consent from legal guardian(s) and/or child obtained in accordance with local regulations * Willing to proceed with surgery and provide mandatory tissue specimens or previously collected FFPE tissues for complete exome and transcriptome sequencing or available sequencing data available from commercial or research test * NOTE: Patients who had sequencing under Mayo IRB protocol #13-000942, #14-004094, or #21-007742 and neoantigens have been identified or REAL Neo vaccine produced are allowed to proceed to pre-registration and/or registration * Negative pregnancy test done ≤ 7 days prior to pre-registration for persons of childbearing potential only * NOTE: If the urine test is positive or cannot be confirmed as negative, a serum pregnancy test will be required * Willing to employ a highly effective method of contraception from the t

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Source: ClinicalTrials.gov. Record last refreshed by Varda Clinical: 2026-09-27.