A Phase III Study to Test the Benefit of a New Kind of Anti-cancer Treatment in Patients With Melanoma, After Surgical Removal of Their Tumor

Summary

The purpose of this clinical trial is to evaluate the benefit of the immunotherapeutic product GSK 2132231A in preventing disease relapse when given to melanoma patients, after surgical removal of their tumor. This Protocol Posting has been updated following Amendments 1 of the Protocol, March 2010. The impacted sections are outcome measures and entry criteria.

Timeline

Start

2008-12-01

Primary completion

2016-01-27

Completion

2016-01-27

Publications

• Background Dreno B, Thompson JF, Smithers BM, Santinami M, Jouary T, Gutzmer R, Levchenko E, Rutkowski P, Grob JJ, Korovin S, Drucis K, Grange F, Machet L, Hersey P, Krajsova I, Testori A, Conry R, Guillot B, Kruit WHJ, Demidov L, Thompson JA, Bondarenko I, Jaroszek J, Puig S, Cinat G, Hauschild A, Goeman JJ, van Houwelingen HC, Ulloa-Montoya F, Callegaro A, Dizier B, Spiessens B, Debois M, Brichard VG, Louahed J, Therasse P, Debruyne C, Kirkwood JM. MAGE-A3 immunotherapeutic as adjuvant therapy for patients with resected, MAGE-A3-positive, stage III melanoma (DERMA): a double-blind, randomised, placebo-controlled, phase 3 trial. Lancet Oncol. 2018 Jul;19(7):916-929. doi: 10.1016/S1470-2045(18)30254-7. Epub 2018 Jun 13.
• Background Dizier B, Callegaro A, Debois M, Dreno B, Hersey P, Gogas HJ, Kirkwood JM, Vansteenkiste JF, Sequist LV, Atanackovic D, Goeman J, van Houwelingen H, Salceda S, Wang F, Therasse P, Debruyne C, Spiessens B, Brichard VG, Louahed J, Ulloa-Montoya F. A Th1/IFNgamma Gene Signature Is Prognostic in the Adjuvant Setting of Resectable High-Risk Melanoma but Not in Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer. Clin Cancer Res. 2020 Apr 1;26(7):1725-1735. doi: 10.1158/1078-0432.CCR-18-3717. Epub 2019 Nov 15.

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