Active clinical trials for "Melanoma"

This was a Phase 1, open-label, dose-escalation, single-center study in patients with histologically confirmed Stage III or IV melanoma and at least 3 metastatic cutaneous or subcutaneous lesions that were suitable and accessible for intralesional (IL) injection (1 lesion), biopsy (1 lesion), and response evaluation (1 lesion). The primary objective was to determine the safety of IL administration of bacillus Calmette-Guerin (BCG) followed by oral dosing with an antibiotic (isoniazid) and intravenous (IV) infusions of ipilimumab. Secondary objectives were to evaluate the clinical efficacy (induction of tumor response) and immunogenicity (induction of immune response against the tumors) of the combination regimen.

To evaluate the safety, tolerability and efficacy of LEE011 and LGX818 when administered orally to patients with BRAF mutant melanoma.

This phase I trial studies the side effects and best dose of vaccine therapy in treating patients with stage III-IV melanoma that has spread to other places in the body and usually cannot be cured or controlled with treatment (advanced). Vaccines made from peptides or antigens may help the body build an effective immune response to kill tumor cells.

This phase I trial studies the safety and best dose of ex-vivo activated lymph node lymphocytes (X-ACT) as well as how well the immune system responds to X-ACT treatment in participants with stage IIIC-IV melanoma. X-ACT treatment involves removing a participant's lymph node(s) close to a melanoma tumor. These lymph nodes contain special kind of cells (called T cells) which can be activated (getting the cells to start up certain responses in the immune system) outside of the body in an approved laboratory. The activated T cells are then injected back into the same participant using an i.v. to help the participant's immune system to target melanoma. The participant will undergo regular blood testing to determine whether the X-ACT treatment has resulted in changes to the immune system and also whether the T cells which were given back to the patient persist in the blood stream over time. In addition, the effect of the X-ACT treatment on the growth or shrinkage of the participant's melanoma will be measured.

This phase II trial studies how well pembrolizumab works in treating patients with uveal melanoma that has spread to other places in the body and usually cannot be cured or controlled with treatment. Monoclonal antibodies, such as pembrolizumab, may block tumor growth in different ways by targeting certain cells.

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of the combination of vemurafenib with cobimetinib in patients with active melanoma brain metastases.

The purpose of the study is to comply with the Pediatric Investigation Plan requirements of Ipilimumab

This research study was intended to be a Phase I/II clinical trial, but the trial was terminated before the phase 1 portion was completed. Phase I clinical trials test the safety of an investigational combination of drugs. Phase I studies also try to define the appropriate dose of the investigational drug combination to use for the Phase II portion of the study, which will enroll more participants and continue to study the effects of the drug and the safest dose. "Investigational" means that the combination of vemurafenib and leflunomide is still being studied and that research doctors are trying to find out more about it. It also means that the FDA has not approved this drug combination for your type of cancer. Genes are a specific part of your cell materials which send code messages to determine what the investigators bodies look like, such as eye color, and instruct cells to control growth and development of the body. Researchers have found that a large number of melanoma cells have mutations in the BRAF gene. Normally, the BRAF gene helps to control how cells grow. Mutations in the BRAF gene may disrupt this control and allow cells in the skin to change into cancer cells, in which case, the cells keep dividing and growing out of control. Specifically, it has been shown that vemurafenib blocks the effects of these mutations in the BRAF gene, and, as a result, may help to prevent cancer growth. The FDA has approved vemurafenib for use in patients with BRAF mutation positive melanoma that is unable to be removed by surgery (unresectable) or that has spread (metastatic). Leflunomide is in a class of medications called disease-modifying antirheumatic drugs (DMARDs). It is FDA approved for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis and it is believed to decrease inflammation in that setting. However it is not approved for treatment of melanoma. The researchers of this study believe this agent may help prevent cancer growth as well as enhance the properties of drugs that target the BRAF gene (such as vemurafenib) based on recently published laboratory research, and would like to learn more about any effects this combination may have on your disease. The main purposes of this study are to determine the highest dose of vemurafenib and leflunomide that can be given in combination without causing severe side effects, to see whether the combination of vemurafenib and leflunomide is safe in participants with BRAF mutant metastatic melanoma and to learn if the combination of vemurafenib and leflunomide shows any signs of effectively treating your disease.

The study design includes an open-label, dose escalation phase followed by a blinded, randomized phase, which combines epacadostat (an oral IDO1 inhibitor) with an approved therapy and compares to approved therapy plus placebo in metastatic melanoma patients.

An attractive area of research regards immune manipulations to recover some of the patient's immune response to his/her tumor, a strategy that has the advantages of being both natural and potentially long-lasting.[1] We propose to combine immunotherapy with radiotherapy directed to a metastatic site, to create a "hub" for in vivo immunization to the tumor, to enable "tumor rejection" at the other metastatic sites. This "in vivo immunization" is explored as a viable alternative to an individualized vaccine approach. Preclinical data generated by us and others support a "proof of principle" clinical trial that may open the field to an alternative use of radiotherapy in a novel partnership with cancer immunotherapy.[2]