Patients will be randomly assigned to receive an experimental study medication (MK-3475) or a commonly used chemotherapy medication. The purpose of this study is learn more about the safety and effect of MK-3475 compared to other chemotherapy medication in patients who have skin cancer that has spread to other part of the body.
- Conditions
- Advanced melanoma (unresectable or metastatic)MedDRA version: 20.0 Level: PT Classification code 10027480 Term: Metastatic malignant melanoma System Organ Class: 10029104 - Neoplasms benign, malignant and unspecified (incl cysts and polyps)Therapeutic area: Diseases [C] - Cancer [C04]
- Registration Number
- EUCTR2012-003030-17-DE
- Brief Summary
Not available
- Detailed Description
Not available
Recruitment & Eligibility
- Status
- ot Recruiting
- Sex
- Not specified
- Target Recruitment
- 540
1) Patient must have a histologically or cytologically confirmed diagnosis of unresectable stage III or metastatic MEL not amenable to local therapy.
2) Patients must be refractory to ipilimumab.
3) Resolution/improvement of ipilimumab-related AEs (including irAEs) back to Grade 0-1 and =10 mg/day prednisone (or equivalent dose) for irAEs for at least two weeks prior to first dose of study drug.
4) Patients must consent to provide a newly obtained tumor tissue/biopsy (or specimen obtained within 60 days prior to consenting) for biomarker analysis from a core or excisional biopsy of a tumor lesion not previously irradiated.
5) BRAF V600E or V600K mutation status must be known at Screening. Patients with BRAF mutant melanoma must have had a prior treatment regimen that included vemurafenib, dabrafenib, or an approved BRAF and/or MEK inhibitor.
6) Patient must have at least one radiologically measurable lesion as per RECIST 1.1 (Appendix 6.1) defined as a lesion that is 10 mm in longest diameter or a lymph node that is 15 mm in short axis imaged by CT scan or MRI.
7) Patient is =18 years of age on day of signing informed consent.
8) Patient must have a performance status of 0 or 1 on the ECOG Performance Scale (Appendix 6.4)
9) Patient must have adequate organ function.
10) Patient has voluntarily agreed to participate by giving written
informed consent/assent for the trial. The patient may also provide
consent/assent for Future Biomedical Research. However, the subject
may participate in the main trial without participating in Future
Biomedical Research.
11) Female patient of childbearing potential should have a negative
urine or serum pregnancy test within 72 hours prior to receiving the first
dose of study medication. If the urine test is positive or cannot be
confirmed as negative, a serum pregnancy test will be required. The
serum pregnancy test must be negative for the patient to be eligible.
12) Female patients enrolled in the study, who are not free from menses
for >2 years, post hysterectomy/oophorectomy, or surgically sterilized,
must be willing to use either 2 adequate barrier methods or a barrier
method plus a hormonal method of contraception to prevent pregnancy,
or to abstain from heterosexual activity throughout the study, starting
with Visit 1 through 120 days after the last dose of study drug. Approved
contraceptive methods include 2 of the following methods (or 1 of the
following methods combined with hormonal contraceptive), for example:
intra-uterine device, diaphragm with spermicide, cervical cap with
spermicide, male condoms, or female condom with spermicide.
Spermicides alone are not an acceptable method of contraception.
13) Male patients must agree to use an adequate method of
contraception starting with Visit 1 through 120 days after the last dose
of study drug.
Are the trial subjects under 18? no
Number of subjects for this age r
1) Patient who has had chemotherapy, radioactive, or biological cancer therapy within four weeks prior to the first dose of study drug, or who has not recovered to CTCAE Grade 1 or better from the AEs due to cancer therapeutics administered more than four weeks earlier.
2) Patient who received ipilimumab only as an adjuvant therapy.
3) Patient is currently participating or has participated in a study of an investigational agent or using an investigational device within 30 days of the first dose of study drug.
4) Patient is expected to require any other form of systemic or localized antineoplastic therapy while on study.
5) Patient is on chronic systemic steroid therapy (>10 mg/day prednisone or equivalent) within two weeks before the planned date for first dose randomized treatment or on any other form of immunosuppressive medication. (Patients that are expected to require premedication with corticosteroid for MK-3475 will not be eligible for this study.)
6) Patient has a known history of a hematologic malignancy, primary brain tumor or sarcoma, or of another primary solid tumor, unless the patient has undergone potentially curative therapy with no evidence of that disease for five years.
7) Patient has known active central nervous system (CNS) metastases and/or carcinomatous meningitis. Patients with previously treated brain metastases may participate provided they meet the following criteria:
8) Patient previously had a severe hypersensitivity reaction to treatment with another mAb.
9) Patient has an active autoimmune disease or a history of autoimmune disease or syndrome that requires systemic steroids or immunosuppressive agents. Patients with vitiligo or resolved childhood asthma/atopy would be exceptions to this rule. Patients that require intermittent use of bronchodilators or local steroid injections would not be excluded from the study. Patients with hypothyroidism stable on hormone replacement will not be excluded from the study.
10) Patients who received treatment with live vaccines within 30 days prior to the first dose of study medication. Examples of live vaccines include, but are not limited to, the following: measles, mumps, rubella, chicken pox, yellow fever, seasonal flu, H1N1 flu, rabies, BCG, and typhoid vaccine.
11) Patient had prior treatment with any other anti-PD-1, or PD-L1 or PD-L2 agent.
12) Patient has previously participated in Merck MK-3475 clinical trials.
13) Patient has an active infection requiring systemic therapy.
14) Patient has known history of Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV)
(HIV 1/2 antibodies)
15) Patient is positive for active Hepatitis B (HBsAg reactive) or
Hepatitis C (HCV ribonucleic acid [RNA] [qualitative] is detected).
Patients with negative Hepatitis C antibody testing may not require RNA
testing if deemed appropriate by treating physician.
16) Patient has a history or current evidence of any condition, therapy,
or laboratory abnormality that might confound the results of the study,
interfere with the patient's participation for the full duration of the
study, or is not in the best interest of th
Study & Design
- Study Type
- Interventional clinical trial of medicinal product
- Study Design
- Not specified
- Primary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method
- Secondary Outcome Measures
Name Time Method