Conditions: Hormone-Resistant Prostate Cancer Prostate Adenocarcinoma Recurrent Prostate Carcinoma Stage IV Prostate Cancer
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 10
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
This randomized phase II trial studies how well docetaxel and prednisone with or without vaccine therapy works in treating patients with hormone-resistant prostate cancer that has spread to other parts of the body. Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as docetaxel and prednisone, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells, by stopping them from dividing, or by stopping them from spreading. Vaccines made from an antigen may help the body build an effective immune response to kill tumor cells. It is not yet known whether docetaxel and prednisone are more effective with or without vaccine therapy in treating prostate cancer.

Detailed description:
PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To evaluate the overall survival in patients treated with PSA-TRICOM (fowlpox-PSA-TRICOM vaccine and rilimogene-galvacirepvec) and docetaxel chemotherapy versus docetaxel chemotherapy only.

SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To evaluate the time to radiographic progression after beginning docetaxel chemotherapy in patients previously treated with PSA-TRICOM vaccine versus those not treated with this vaccine.

II. To compare objective responses (according to Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors \[RECIST\]) between the two treatment groups in those patients with measurable disease.

III. To evaluate prostate-specific antigen (PSA) response rates (decline \>= 50%) in patients treated with PSA-TRICOM and docetaxel chemotherapy versus docetaxel chemotherapy only.

IV. To evaluate immune responses elicited in patients treated before and after docetaxel chemotherapy.

V. To evaluate the association between development of prostate antigen-specific immune responses and time to progression and overall survival.

VI. To evaluate the association of predicted survival (by Halabi nomogram) with actual survival in patients treated with PSA-TRICOM vaccine versus those not treated with this vaccine.

OUTLINE: Patients are randomized to 1 of 2 treatment arms.

ARM A (vaccine and chemotherapy): Patients receive rilimogene-galvacirepvec subcutaneously (SC) on day 1 of course 1 and fowlpox-PSA-TRICOM vaccine SC on days 15, 29, 43, and 57 of course 1. Beginning on day 85 (day 1 of course 2), patients receive docetaxel intravenously (IV) over 1 hour on day 1 and prednisone orally (PO) twice daily (BID) on days 1-21. Treatment with docetaxel and prednisone repeats every 21 days for up to 12 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.

ARM B (chemotherapy): Patients receive docetaxel IV over 1 hour on day 1 and prednisone PO BID on days 1-21. Treatment repeats every 21 days for up to 12 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.

After completion of study therapy, patients are followed up every 3 months for 2 years and then every 6 months for 3 years.

Arms:
arm 1: Patients receive rilimogene-galvacirepvec SC on day 1 of course 1 and fowlpox-PSA-TRICOM vaccine SC on days 15, 29, 43, and 57 of course 1. Beginning on day 85 (day 1 of course 2), patients receive docetaxel IV over 1 hour on day 1 and prednisone PO BID on days 1-21. Treatment with docetaxel and prednisone repeats every 21 days for up to 12 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. arm 2: Patients receive docetaxel IV over 1 hour on day 1 and prednisone PO BID on days 1-21. Treatment repeats every 21 days for up to 12 courses in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.

Interventions: intervention 1: Docetaxel intervention 2: Laboratory Biomarker Analysis intervention 3: Prednisone intervention 4: Recombinant Fowlpox-PSA(L155)/TRICOM Vaccine intervention 5: Rilimogene Galvacirepvec
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: Given IV intervention 2: Correlative studies intervention 3: Given PO intervention 4: Given SC intervention 5: Given SC

Protocol document: