Concurrent Ipilimumab and Stereotactic Ablative Radiation Therapy (SART) for Oligometastatic But Unresectable Melanoma

NCT01565837 · Status: UNKNOWN · Phase: PHASE2 · Type: INTERVENTIONAL · Enrollment: 50

Last updated 2016-02-01

No results posted yet for this study

Summary

The purpose of this study is to evaluate if precisely-targeted radiation therapy, known as stereotactic ablative radiotherapy (SART), given during treatment with the drug ipilimumab (Yervoy) will improve survival for patients with melanoma that has spread to five or fewer sites (oligometastatic).

Blood samples will be collected for research purposes. Planned studies include exploration of certain gene mutations and serum markers as predictors of response to ipilimumab treatment. Research lab studies will also evaluate if circulating tumor cells (CTC) can be accurately detected and isolated from the blood using novel laboratory techniques and if they are a prognostic/predictive marker for treatment response. Test results will not be given to participants or their physicians. In some cases, CTC may be grown for long-term cell lines for further research.

Conditions

Interventions

DRUG

Ipilimumab

Ipilimumab 10mg/kg administered intravenously over 90-minute period every 3 weeks for a total of four doses as tolerated. Maintenance ipilimumab (10 mg/kg intravenously every 3 months) will be administered beginning Week 24, as long as there is clinical benefit in the opinion of the investigator using immune related response criteria, and there are no novel or unexpected Grade 3 or 4 toxicities.

RADIATION

Stereotactic Ablative Radiosurgery (SART)

Definitive radiotherapy will be administered to up to 1-5 lesions using SART techniques after initial dose of ipilimumab. Radiotherapy will be timed before start of 3rd cycle of ipilimumab treatment to maximize synergy (week 6).

Sponsors & Collaborators

  • Comprehensive Cancer Centers of Nevada

    collaborator OTHER
  • Wolfram Samlowski

    lead OTHER

Principal Investigators

  • Wolfram Samlowski, MD · Comprehensive Cancer Centers of Nevada

Study Design

Allocation
NA
Purpose
TREATMENT
Masking
NONE
Model
SINGLE_GROUP

Eligibility

Min Age
18 Years
Sex
ALL
Healthy Volunteers
No

Timeline & Regulatory

Start
2012-08-31
Primary Completion
2016-11-30
Completion
2017-11-30

Countries

  • United States

Study Locations

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