Vaccine Therapy in Treating Patients With Stage III-IV or Recurrent Ovarian Cancer

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES: I. To determine the safety of an insulin like growth factor binding protein 2 (IGFBP-2) Th polyepitope plasmid based vaccine in patients with advanced stage or recurrent ovarian cancer. SECONDARY OBJECTIVES: I. To determine the immunogenicity of IGFBP-2 Th polyepitope plasmid based vaccine in patients with advanced stage or recurrent ovarian cancer. II. To determine whether intermolecular epitope spreading occurs with the generation of an IGFBP-2 specific Th1 immune response. III. To determine whether IGFBP-2 vaccination modulates T regulatory cells. OUTLINE: Patients receive pUMVC3-hIGFBP-2 multi-epitope plasmid DNA vaccine intradermally (ID) monthly for 3 months. After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up at 1, 3, 6, and 12 months, and then every 6 months for 5 years.