A Study of ALT-801 in Combination With Cisplatin and Gemcitabine in Muscle Invasive or Metastatic Urothelial Cancer

This is an interventional treatment trial for Transitional Cell Carcinoma of Bladder focused on measuring cancer, immunotherapy, immunochemotherapy, combinational therapy, targeted, metastatic, muscle invasive, interleukin-2, cisplatin, gemcitabine, antitumor, TCR, T-cell receptor, p53, p53 gene, p53 tumor supressor protein, urothelial cancer, bladder cancer, renal pelvis cancer, ureters cancer, urethra cancer, HLA-A2 positive, HLA-A*0201/p53 aa264-272, HLA complex, Muscle Invasive or Metastatic Read More

ENTRY CRITERIA:

DISEASE CHARATERISTICS:

• Muscle invasive or metastatic urothelial cancer of bladder, ureters, renal pelvis, and urethra

• Histologically or cytologically confirmed with a clinical plan that would potentially include cisplatin* plus gemcitabine systemic therapy or with disease refractory to a first-line platinum-based therapy (as defined in the protocol).

  * Does not apply to patients screened for Phase II expansion

• Surgically incurable

PRIOR/CONCURRENT THERAPY:

• No concurrent radiotherapy, other chemotherapy, or other immunotherapy
• Must have recovered from side effects of prior treatments
• If prior Proleukin® treatment, must have had a clinical benefit
• No use of other investigational agents within 30 days of start or concurrently

PATIENT CHARACTERISTICS:

Age

• ≥ 18 years

Performance Status

• ECOG 0 or 1

Bone Marrow Reserve

• Absolute neutrophil count (AGC/ANC) ≥ 1,500/uL
• Platelets ≥ 100,000/uL
• Hemoglobin ≥ 10g/dL

Renal Function

• Glomerular Filtration Rate (GFR):

  • ≥ 50mL/min/1.73m^2 for cisplatin-containing regimen
  • ≥ 40mL/min/1.73m^2 for non-cisplatin-containing regimen

Hepatic Function

• Total bilirubin ≤ 1.5 X ULN
• AST, ALT, ALP ≤ 2.5 X ULN, or ≤ 5.0 X ULN (if liver metastases exists)
• PT INR ≤ 1.5 X ULN

Cardiovascular

• No congestive heart failure < 6 months
• No unstable angina pectoris < 6 months
• No myocardial infarction < 6 months
• No history of ventricular arrhythmias
• No NYHA Class > II CHF
• Normal cardiac stress test required for subjects who are ≥ 50 years old, or have a history of EKG abnormalities, or have symptoms of cardiac ischemia or arrhythmia
• No uncontrolled hypertension

Pulmonary

• Not receiving chronic medication for asthma
• Normal clinical assessment of pulmonary function

Hematologic

• No evidence of bleeding diathesis or coagulopathy

Other

• Negative serum pregnancy test if female and of childbearing potential
• No women who are pregnant or nursing
• Subjects, both females and males, with reproductive potential must agree to use effective contraceptive measures for the duration of the study
• No known autoimmune disease other than corrected hypothyroidism
• No known prior organ allograft or allogeneic transplantation
• Not HIV positive
• No active systemic infection requiring parenteral antibiotic therapy
• No ongoing systemic steroid therapy required
• No history or evidence of CNS disease (Controlled brain metastases treated with radiation therapy or surgery where the disease has been clinically stable for a period of a least 3 months before screening is allowed)
• No psychiatric illness/social situation
• No other illness that in the opinion of the investigator would exclude the subject from participating in the study
• Must provide informed consent and HIPAA authorization and agree to comply with all protocol-specified procedures and follow-up evaluations