About this trial
This clinical trial is for patients with stage 3 cutaneous melanoma and patients with mucosal melanoma who are able to have surgery to remove all tumour deposits. To improve the chance that melanoma will not recurr, new experimental combinations of a type of treatment called immunotherapy will be given before surgery.
Eligibility criteria
This trial does not accept healthy volunteersQualifiers
1. Written informed consent
2. Male or female patients who are at least 18 years of age on the day of signing informed consent.
3. Clinically detectable disease, and/or RECIST version 1.1 defined disease, and/or disease confirmed on PET imaging.
4. Fully resectable disease defined as having no significant vascular, central nervous system or bony involvement. Only cases where a complete surgical resection leading to tumour free margins and which is safely achieved is considered "resectable".
Disqualifiers
1. Uveal melanoma
2. Any contraindication to the administration of relatlimab, ipilimumab or nivolumab
3. No prior systemic therapy, including treatment with prior anti-PD1/L1, anti-CTLA-4 or anti-LAG-3 therapy (cohorts 1 and 3), except for cohort 2 which will have received anti-PD1 monotherapy only.
Replacement therapy (e.g. thyroxine, insulin, or physiologic corticosteroid replacement therapy for adrenal or pituitary insufficiency, etc)
Trial design
Parallel
Treatments tested in this trial
Ipilimumab 3mg/kg and nivolumab 1mg/kg
DrugNeoadjuvant for 2 doses on days 1 and 22
Ipilimumab 1mg/kg Nivolumab 480mg and relatlimab 160mg
DrugNeoadjuvant for 2 doses at days 1 and 29
Nivolumab 480mg and relatlimab 160mg
DrugNeoadjuvant for 2 doses on days 1 and 29
Ipilimumab 1mg/kg and nivolumab 3mg/kg
DrugNeoadjuvant for 2 doses at days 1 and 22
Pembrolizumab 200 mg
DrugNeoadjuvant for 2 doses at days 1 and 22
Treatment groups
6
Treatment groupsSee each treatment group below.
Trial outcomes
Primary outcomes
Pathological response rate
The primary endpoint is the pathological response rate at surgery (between days 43 and 56) from the first dose of neoadjuvant study treatment for each of cohorts 1b, 2 and 3. The pathological response is categorised thus: - Complete pathological response (pCR) - 0% viable tumour cells in the surgical specimen - Near complete pathological response - (near pCR) - \<10% viable tumour - Partial pathological response (pPR) - 10%-50% viable tumour - No pathological response (pNR) - \>50% viable tumour The proportion of participants with a pCR, or near pCR will determine the pathological response rate.
Secondary outcomes
Event-free survival (EFS)
The proportion of patients with the earliest EFS outcome of: (a) Melanoma progression from randomisation and prior to planned surgery (b) Disease recurrence, from the date of surgery (local, regional or distant). (c) Study treatment-related death from randomisation. (d) Melanoma-related death, from randomisation.
Objective response rate
RECIST version 1.1 defined objective response at week 6 for patients with RECIST-measurable disease at baseline
Metabolic response rate
PERCIST defined metabolic response
Loco-regional relapse-free survival
Time from surgery to the date of loco-regional recurrence
Sponsors and contacts
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Melanoma Institute Australia
Lead sponsor
Bristol-Myers Squibb
Collaborator