Interleukin-6 Receptor Inhibitor Sarilumab in Combination With Ipilimumab, Nivolumab and Relatlimab in Patients With Unresectable Stage III or Stage IV Melanoma

Melanoma Clinical Trial

Official title: A Phase II Study of the Interleukin-6 Receptor Inhibitor Sarilumab in Combination With Ipilimumab, Nivolumab and Relatlimab in Patients With Unresectable Stage III or Stage IV Melanoma

Status Recruiting

Clinical Trial Summary

The study will evaluate how safe the study drug is, how well you tolerate it, and how it works in the body and the disease's response to the drug. The study drug being tested is sarilumab, when given with the combination of ipilimumab, nivolumab, and relatlimab in patients with stage III or stage IV melanoma that cannot be removed by surgery. Previous studies have provided a strong rationale for combining sarilumab, with ipilimumab, nivolumab and relatlimab in metastatic melanoma to reduce side effects and potentially work better for this type of cancer. Sarilumab is an FDA-approved inhibitor of the receptor for the cytokine IL-6, currently approved for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, but it is not FDA-approved to treat melanoma. This means that the use of Sarilumab to treat melanoma is considered investigational. The other drugs which will be administered in this study, ipilimumab and nivolumab, are also monoclonal antibodies, but they target different proteins. Ipilimumab and nivolumab are both approved by the FDA to treat advanced stage III and IV melanomas. The nivolumab + relatlimab FDC (fixed dose combination) being used in this study is considered investigational, meaning it is not approved by the FDA.

Clinical Trial Description

In this Phase II, open-label study, the treatment period will consist of an induction phase and a maintenance phase. The induction phase consists of an induction treatment cycle of 8 weeks which is the DLT period. The maintenance phase consists of treatment cycles of 56 days (8 weeks) each, and may extend up to 2 years. During the induction phase, ipilimumab will be administered on day 1 at a dose of 1 mg/kg intravenously (IV) during the 8-week induction period, concurrent with nivolumab 480 mg/relatlimab at 160 mg, fixed dose, administered at a 4 week interval on days 1 and 29 with a 30 minute rest period between the two infusions on day 1 and 29. On days administered in combination, nivolumab/relatlimab will be administered first at a dose of 480 mg/160 mg, followed by ipilimumab at 1 mg/kg, and immediately followed by sarilumab at 150 mg given subcutaneously. Nivolumab/relatlimab and ipilimumab will be each administered IV over 30 minutes consecutively with a 30-minute rest period between infusions, on day 1 of the first and all subsequent 56-day maintenance treatment cycles and nivolumab/relatlimab will be administered on day 29 of each cycle. Sarilumab will be administered subcutaneously every 2 weeks during the 56-day induction treatment cycle and the first two 56-day maintenance cycles only for a total of 24 weeks ;

Related Conditions & MeSH terms

• Melanoma
• Unresectable Melanoma

• NCT number: NCT05428007
• Study type: Interventional
• Source: NYU Langone Health
• Contact: Jeffrey Weber, MD, PhD
• Phone: 212-731-6262
• Email: jeffrey.weber@nyulangone.org
• Status: Recruiting
• Phase: Phase 2
• Start date: December 16, 2022
• Completion date: December 2025