Active clinical trials for "Melanoma"

Randomized study. Initially, 3 patients will be entered on Arm I as a pilot feasibility study and to standardize the technical aspects of the study. Subsequently, all patients are randomized to Arms I and II. Arm I: Regional Hyperthermia plus Regional Single-Agent Chemotherapy. Hyperthermic intravenous limb perfusion, HILP; plus Melphalan, L-PAM, NSC-8806. Arm II: Regional Hyperthermia plus Regional Single-Agent Chemotherapy and Biological Response Modifier Therapy. HILP as in Arm I; plus L-PAM; and Tumor Necrosis Factor (Knoll), TNF, NSC-635257; Interferon gamma (Genentech), IFN-G, NSC-600662.

This is a trial of prospective collection of serial blood samples after administration of COVID-19 vaccine in patients with cancer who are receiving active cancer treatment, planned to start therapy with 14 days of consent, or have had stem cell transplant. Cancer treatments and administration of vaccine are not controlled by the study.

This is a randomized non-blinded pilot study for patients with melanoma staging cT2N0M0 who are candidates for surgical resection. The primary objective is to determine the feasibility of randomizing participants with cT2N0M0 malignant melanoma to surgical treatment with 1cm versus 2cm margins. Study will try to determine overall survival for cT2N0M0 malignant melanoma after surgical treatment with 1cm versus 2cm margins.

The purpose of this study is to understand how people make decisions about sun protection. This study is important in helping to protect against sun exposure, since it is a main risk factor for melanoma. The investigators would like to understand the decisions people make about sun protection so that they can improve their ability to help individuals who may be at risk for melanoma.

This study evaluated the pharmacokinetics of aldesleukin in participants with metastatic renal cell cancer or metastatic melanoma.

The purpose of this study is to determine whether the use of fibrin sealant reduces post-operative drainage following groin and axillary lymph node dissection.

To describe the tumor tissue saturation by MEDI-522 in patients with advanced malignant melanoma.

This study aims to establish a holistic framework for continuous cancer survival surveillance in Russian regions with high-quality population-based cancer registry data. The data from the population-based cancer registries of the Northwestern regions of Russia will be used to assess net and cause-specific survival trends.

Groin lymph node dissection for melanoma patients is burdened by high post-operative morbidity, mainly related to wound. This is a prospective pilot trial investigated feasibility and postoperative outcomes of videoscopic ilioinguinal lymphadenectomy in patients with inguinal lymph node melanoma metastases.

Major response was observed to imatinib mesylate in KIT-mutated metastatic rectal melanoma (Hodi FS et al, J Clin Oncol 26:2046-2051, 2008). In the ASCO annual meeting in 2009ar, KIT mutations were reported to be present in 23% of acral and 15.2% of mucosal melanomas (Heinrich MC et al, J Clin Oncol 26:2008 abstr 9016). Nilotinib is a novel tyrosine kinase inhibitor (TKI) targeting KIT, PDGFR, and Bcr-Abl and inhibiting the proliferating of both imatinib-sensitive and imatinib-resistant cells in vitro. Phase I study of nilotinib alone and in combination with imatinib in patients with imatinib-resistant gastrointestinal stromal tumors (GIST) demonstrated significant activity (72% stable disease for nilotinib alone and 56% for nilotinib/imatinib combination) (Blay JY et al, J Clin Oncol 26:2008, abstr 10553). Thus, we propose to conduct a phase II study of nilotinib in metastatic melanoma with KIT mutations.