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The purpose of this study is to study the effectiveness of the combination of drugs called nivolumab and high dose interleukin-2 (HD IL-2) as a treatment for metastatic (the cancer has spread) melanoma or renal cell carcinoma. HD IL-2 is a drug that was designed to help white blood cells regulate their immune response. HD IL-2 is given intravenously (IV, through a needle into a vein). IL-2 is approved by the FDA for the treatment of metastatic renal cell carcinoma and metastatic melanoma. Nivolumab is a type of drug called a checkpoint inhibitor that was designed to block a protein, allowing the body's immune system to recognize and fight cancer cells. Nivolumab is also given intravenously. Nivolumab is approved by the FDA for the treatment of several cancer types.
Autologous monocyte-derived dendritic cells pulsed with tumor lysate (PV-001-DC) will be given to a group of 3 people. If this is found to be safe, it will be given to up to 7 other people, for a total of up to 10 people in this arm. This will be the first study of PV-001-DC. Eligible patients must be progressing after having completed prior therapy with a PD-1/PD-L1 antagonist alone or in combination with anti-CTLA-4. If the patient is positive for BRAF, the patient must have progressed on at least one BRAF inhibitor in addition to a PD-1/PD-L1 inhibitor alone or in combination with CTLA-4 for metastatic melanoma. Although other kinds of dendritic cells (DCs) have been approved to treat some forms of cancer, they have not been approved to treat melanoma. PV-001-DC is a special kind of DCs that is combined with tumor lysate. The study procedures will start with the removal of a small amount of tumor tissue processed into protein fragments (lysate). There will also be collection of white blood cells through apheresis (a procedure in which blood is drawn from a patient and separated into its different cell types), the white blood cells will be collected and the remainder returned to the patient. Dendritic cells will be grown from the collected white blood cells and combined with the lysate to form PV-001-DC. On the first day of study treatment, patients will go to the clinic and have a needle placed in a vein. The PV-001-DC product will be infused into the patient's vein. Approximately every 3 weeks, for a total of 4 treatments, patients will receive additional infusions of PV-001-DC. Patients will be at the clinic for at least 1 hour following the end of the PV-001-DC infusion and if they feel fine, they may go home. Scans will be performed during the study at different times to see if their tumors have changed in size. Patients will also have their blood and small samples of tumors tested for changes to the immune system. After 365 days, the trial will be completed for that patient. Investigators will monitor patients carefully for any harmful side effects. The side effects in people cannot be completely known ahead of time
The main objective of this project is to perform a longitudinal monitoring of BRAF and NRAS cell-free DNA in a large cohort of metastatic melanomas patients before treatment and during the follow-up. Results will be compared with clinical data as imaging (based on RECIST criteria) and the activity of lactate dehydrogenase in serum (LDH).
It is a prospective, phase II, open-labeled, clinical trial aimed to determine the efficacy of palbociclib in advanced melanoma patients who bear gene aberrations in cell cycle pathways [including CDK4 amplification and/or CCND1 amplification and/or P16 (CDKN2A) loss]. Fifteen patients, if there is a response then further 45 patients will be enrolled. Totally 60 subjects with known above-mentioned gene aberrations who comply with the inclusion and exclusion criteria will be enrolled, their serum samples (at the time of the first administration of palbociclib and every 4 weeks afterwards) will be collected. Palbociclib will be given in the dose of 125 mg orally qd d1-21 every 28 days, unless disease progression or intolerance. All patients will be evaluated for the response to palbociclib by Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST) at baseline. The standard radiographic imaging (CT scans) will be performed every 4 weeks until the end of treatment.
The purpose of this study is to assess the dosimetric properties of the positron emission tomography (PET) imaging probe 18F labeled Picolinamide (18F-P3BZA) and preliminarily evaluate its diagnosis value in melanoma patients.
The primary study objectives are 1. to evaluate the safety and tolerability profiles of DCB-BO1301 and to determine the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) of DCB-BO1301 as add-on therapy to dacarbazine in subjects with advanced melanoma (Phase I) 2. to evaluate the efficacy profile of DCB-BO1301 at MTD or lower dose level as add-on therapy to dacarbazine in subjects with advanced melanoma in terms of progression free survival (Phase IIa)
This study evaluates the effectiveness of adding a single four-day treatment of the fusion protein A-dmDT390-bisFv(UCHT1) — plus single palliative tumor radiation — with standard of care KEYTRUDA (Pembrolizumab) therapy for the treatment of metastatic melanoma. The results will be measured by comparing the combined therapy to historical data of KEYTRUDA alone.
The effectiveness of propranolol in infantile hemangiomas, the apparent better response to propranolol in breast cancer and the use of propranolol in a proportion of patients who did not develop melanoma recurrence suggested to use this unselective β---blocker to test the study hypothesis. The investigators propose a randomized double---blind placebo---controlled clinical trial (RTC) to evaluate whether the treatment with propranolol 80 mgR/die reduce the risk of CMM recurrence and mortality. Patients with resected stage II/IIIA CMM will be recruited in various Centers in Italy. Participants will be randomly assigned to propranolol treatment or placebo (1:1 ratio), treated for at least 1 year and followed for 2 years. Recruitment will proceed simultaneously at the different Centers, and will be completed in 2 years. The primary outcome of the entire trial will be, however, estimated by assessing a reduction in overall mortality at five years. The investigators will also evaluate general CMM recurrence and CMM specific mortality.
Melanoma is the most aggressive skin cancer. Major advances in metastatic melanoma treatment emerge from new immunotherapies that target specific immune inhibitory checkpoint receptors, mainly PD1 and CTLA-4, and overcome the exhaustion state of T cells. In this context, checkpoint inhibitors, such as Ipilimumab (anti-CTLA-4 monoclonal antibodies, mAb) and Nivolumab or Pembrolizumab (anti-PD1 mAb), have demonstrated survival benefit in advanced melanoma patients. Anti-PD1 agents and combination of anti-PD1 and anti CTLA-4 have now been approved as first line therapy in melanoma. However, the predictive factors of response to these immunotherapies remain so far elusive. Recent studies provided consistent evidence that the immune infiltration could be tested as a biomarker for such immunotherapies. Moreover, the very recent concept of tumor neoantigens as biomarkers of response to anti-CTLA-4 mAb, and potentially also to anti-PD1 or combination therapies, is promising but needs to be further explored. In this context, the aim of our program is to identify and validate an immune signature predictive of anti-PD-1 benefit in the treatment of advanced melanoma patients. To this aim, tumor samples from 120 melanoma patients enrolled prospectively, treated with anti-PD1 mAb alone or combined with anti CTLA4, will be collected as well as the corresponding peripheral blood mononuclear cells (PBMC). Tumor infiltration with immune cells will be characterized on paraffin embedded melanoma samples. The investigators will also perform whole-exome sequencing on tumors and matched PBMC samples. Our primary objective is to develop a combined immuno-signature based on an immuno-score (CD3, CD8, CD45RO…) to quantify the in situ immune populations with a dedicated image analysis system combined with the simultaneous detection of CD8-PD-1 and PD-L1 by immunofluorescence in baseline tumor samples. This will permit to predict 1-year survival of patients with advanced melanoma treated with anti-PD1 and transfer in patient's care. Our secondary objectives are: 1/ To assess the interest of the detection of tissue-resident memory (TRM) T cells (CD8-CD103) as a predictive biomarker of response and survival at 1-year; 2/ To extend the panel of neoantigens published by Snyder et al to other neoantigens using a next-generation sequencing (NGS) approach on tumor samples obtained before therapy; 3/ To establish the prognostic value of this panel of neoantigens to predict tumor response to anti-PD1 and 1-year survival; 4/ To functionally validate the identified tumor neoantigens by stimulating patient PBMC with neoantigen peptides and measuring tumor-specific T-cell reactivity; 5/ To define the best marker and/or the best combination of markers predicting the overall response rate and the survival at 12 and 18 months; 6/ To attempt to establish a correlation between immuno-signature and neoepitopes and 7/ To transfer this immune signature in routine basis if validated. Thus, our project will integrate two complementary strategies to define a robust and reliable score system for predicting anti-PD1 targeting immunotherapy response. This study will provide a unique opportunity to validate various putative biomarkers in an integrated way that could help in determining the respective value of each isolated parameter and potentially lead to the definition of a composite biomarker. The identified immune signature would be of major interest in the field of cancer immunotherapy in order to select and manage patient treatment, and to consider the benefice or toxicities expected. It will also help to identify new target antigens of effective antitumoral immune responses and to understand the resistance mechanisms established by the tumor and its influence on the response to current immunotherapies.