Study of Radiotherapy Administered in Combination With Ipilimumab in Patients With Unresectable Stage III or Stage IV Advanced Malignant Melanoma (Mel-Ipi-Rx)
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ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01557114 |
Recruitment Status :
Terminated
(New compounds available in the indication (nivolumab/pembrolizumab), toxicity of ipilimumab)
First Posted : March 19, 2012
Last Update Posted : June 9, 2016
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RATIONALE:Anti-melanoma activity of Ipilimumab both as a single therapy and in association with melanoma peptides has been shown as well as synergy between radiation therapy and anti-CTLA-A mAb in several tumor animal models for both local tumor control and distant effects.Radiotherapy increases tumor immunogenicity in several preclinical models by increasing MHC molecules expression and is able to induce significant tumor reduction in around 30% of cases. Thus, combining radiotherapy and administration of ipilimumab could elicit systemic antitumor response. Radiation therapy will expose tumor-associated antigens (TAA) and facilitate antigen presentation, and further blockade of CTLA-4 could amplify the immune antitumor response. In this therapeutical model, the use of the own patient tumor as a source of tumor antigens (in opposition with other vaccination protocols, where TAA are exogenic) is particularly adapted.
PURPOSE: This Phase I trial determines the side effects and best dose of radiation therapy administered in combination with ipilimumab.
Condition or disease | Intervention/treatment | Phase |
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Malignant Melanoma | Drug: Ipilimumab Radiation: Radiotherapy | Phase 1 |
OBJECTIVES:
Primary: To determine the Maximum Tolerated Dose (MTD), Dose Limiting Toxicity (DLT) and recommended Phase 2 dose of radiation therapy administered in combination with ipilimumab.
Secondary:
Adverse event profiles Preliminary anti-tumor activity following escalating doses of radiation combined to ipilimumab using the immune related response criteria irRC overall survival in patients treated with this combination systemic immunologic anti tumor response intratumoral immune response pharmacodynamic effects of ipilimumab and radiotherapy in combination on Absolute Lymphocyte Count (ALC) associations between ALC and anti-tumor activity of ipilimumab and radiotherapy in combination
Study Type : | Interventional (Clinical Trial) |
Actual Enrollment : | 19 participants |
Allocation: | N/A |
Intervention Model: | Single Group Assignment |
Masking: | None (Open Label) |
Primary Purpose: | Treatment |
Official Title: | A Dose Escalation Phase I Study of Radiotherapy Administered in Combination With Anti-CTLA4 Monoclonal Antibody (Ipilimumab) in Patients With Unresectable Stage III or Stage IV Advanced Malignant Melanoma |
Study Start Date : | March 2011 |
Actual Primary Completion Date : | November 2015 |
Actual Study Completion Date : | March 2016 |

Arm | Intervention/treatment |
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Experimental: radiation therapy with Ipilimumab |
Drug: Ipilimumab
Induction: Treatment with ipilimumab will be administered on weeks 1, 4, 7 and 10 at 10mg/kg. Maintenance: Ipilimumab will be administered intravenously over 90-minutes at 10 mg/kg every 12 weeks starting at week 24, for as long as the treating physician believes that there is a clinical benefit or for as long as patient is tolerant of therapy Radiation: Radiotherapy Radiation therapy 9 Grays in 3 Grays fractions Radiation therapy 15 Grays in 5 Grays fractions Radiation therapy 18 Grays in 6 Grays fractions Radiation therapy 24 Grays in 8 Grays fractions |
- Maximum Tolerated Dose of radiation therapy administered in combination with ipilimumab [ Time Frame: between week 4 and week 10 ]To determine the Maximum Tolerated Dose (MTD), Dose Limiting Toxicity (DLT) andrecommended Phase 2 dose of radiation therapy administered in combination with ipilimumab.
- Adverse event profiles [ Time Frame: At an average of every four weeks during the treatment phase ]Adverse event profiles
- overall survival in patients treated with this combination [ Time Frame: At an average of every four weeks during the treatment phase and then every three months during the follow-up phase ]overall survival in patients treated with this combination

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Ages Eligible for Study: | 18 Years and older (Adult, Older Adult) |
Sexes Eligible for Study: | All |
Accepts Healthy Volunteers: | No |
Inclusion Criteria:
- Willing and able to give written informed consent.
- Histologic diagnosis of melanoma.
- Unresectable locally advanced or metastatic melanoma with at least one melanoma metastasis accessible to radiation therapy.
- Measurable disease according to immune related Response Criteria
- Required values for initial laboratory tests:
WBC >= 2000/uL ANC >= 1000/uL Platelets >= 75 x 103/uL Hemoglobin >= 8 g/dL Creatinine <= 2,5 x ULN AST/ALT <= 2.5 x ULN for patients without liver metastasis or <= 5 x ULN for patients with liver metastasis Total Bilirubin <= 1,5.x ULN, (except patients with Gilbert's Syndrome, who must have a total bilirubin less than 3.0 mg/dL)
- No active or chronic infection with HIV, Hepatitis B, or Hepatitis C.
- ECOG Performance status of 0 or 1.
- Men and women, >= 18 years of age.
- Women of childbearing potential (WOCBP) must be using an adequate method of contraception to avoid pregnancy throughout the study and for up to 8 weeks after the last dose of investigational product, in such a manner that the risk of pregnancy is minimized.
Exclusion Criteria:
- Suspected or known CNS tumors including brain metastasis.
- Any other malignancy form which the patient has been disease-free for less than 5 years, with the exception of adequately treated and cured basal or squamous cell skin cancer, superficial bladder cancer or carcinoma in situ of the cervix.
- Autoimmune disease: Patients with a history of inflammatory bowel disease are excluded from this study, as are patients with a history of symptomatic disease (e.g., rheumatoid arthritis, systemic progressive sclerosis [scleroderma], systemic lupus erythematosus, autoimmune vasculitis [e.g., Wegener's Granulomatosis]); motor neuropathy considered of autoimmune origin (e.g. Guillain-Barre Syndrome).
- Any underlying medical or psychiatric condition, which in the opinion of the investigator will make the administration of ipilimumab hazardous or obscure the interpretation of AEs, such as a condition associated with frequent diarrhea.
- Any non-oncology vaccine therapy used for prevention of infectious diseases (for up to 1 month before or after any dose of ipilimumab).
- A history of prior treatment with ipilimumab or prior CD137 agonist or CTLA-4 inhibitor or agonist.
- Concomitant hormonal treatment, chemotherapy or immunotherapy.
- Other investigational therapy.
- Prior radiotherapy within the same body area.
- Prior radiotherapy targeting fields containing flat bones.
- Women of childbearing potential (WOCBP), defined above
- Prisoners or subjects who are compulsorily detained (involuntarily incarcerated) for treatment of either a psychiatric or physical (e.g., infectious) illness.
- Persons of reproductive potential must agree to use an adequate method of contraception throughout treatment and for at least 8 weeks after ipilimumab is stopped.

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Please refer to this study by its ClinicalTrials.gov identifier (NCT number): NCT01557114
France | |
Gustave Roussy Cancer Campus | |
Villejuif, Val de Marne, France, 94805 | |
Institut Gustave Roussy | |
Villejuif, France, 94805 |
Publications automatically indexed to this study by ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier (NCT Number):
Responsible Party: | Gustave Roussy, Cancer Campus, Grand Paris |
ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: | NCT01557114 |
Other Study ID Numbers: |
CSET 2010/1663 -Mel-Ipi-Rx 2010-020317-93 ( EudraCT Number ) |
First Posted: | March 19, 2012 Key Record Dates |
Last Update Posted: | June 9, 2016 |
Last Verified: | June 2016 |
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