Low Dose Naltrexone for Metastatic Melanoma, Castrate Resistant Prostate Cancer and Renal Cancer

Three types of solid tumors will be studied in this protocol: Melanoma, castrate resistant
prostate cancer and kidney cancer. Systemic chemotherapy may weaken the immune system
reducing the potential for response to LDN. Therefore, patients must either have not had
previous chemotherapy or patients must not have received more than 1 prior chemotherapy
regimen which must have been completed at least 6 months prior to LDN. Systemic chemotherapy
has at best modest activity in melanoma, CRPC and renal cancer.

- Melanoma will be evaluated since the responding patient at the Miriam Hospital had
melanoma. Immunomodulatory agents such as ipilimumab have already demonstrated a
survival advantage in melanoma.

- Castrate Resistant Prostate Cancer (CRPC): It is common in CRPC for patients to have
rising PSA after failure of androgen deprivation. These patients may be asymptomatic or
minimally symptomatic and there is reluctance to initiate treatment with systemic
chemotherapy with standard docetaxel since this agent has substantial toxicity and will
impair quality of life. Waiting until symptomatic disease progression in patients with
CRPC and rising PSA is a commonly utilized strategy. These patients are excellent
candidates for a treatment with minimal toxicity such as LDA. The immunomodulatory agent
Sipuleucel also improves survival in prostate cancer suggesting that an agent such as
LDN could also be helpful.

- Renal cancer will also be studied since this is a disease that has activity with
immunomodulants such as IL-2 and interferon. Targeted therapies are generally used for
renal cancer. Chemotherapy has minimal activity so most patients are chemotherapy-naive.

Conditions for Patient Eligibility

Each patient must meet all of the following inclusion criteria to be enrolled in the study:

- Histologically or pathologically confirmed melanoma, renal cancer or prostate cancer.

- Patients with melanoma or renal cancer must have metastatic disease.

- Patients with melanoma or renal cancer must have radiographically measurable advanced
disease. Patients with measurable cutaneous lesions are also evaluable patients with
prostate cancer must be castrate refractory and must have radiographically assessable
metastatic disease or must have rising PSA on two sequential measurements.

- No prior chemotherapy, or have not received cytotoxic chemotherapy within the 6 months
prior to entry..

- No radiation for 3 weeks prior to beginning Naltrexone

- No requirement for opioid analgesics orNo use of opioid analgesics for at least 10
days.

- Absolute neutrophil count ≥ 1,000/uL, platelet ≥ 75,000/uL.

- Total bilirubin ≤ 1.5x upper institutional limit (ULN) and AST or ALT ≤ 3x ULN;

- No prior history of hepatic failure, cirrhosis or hepatic encephalopathy

- ECOG performance status 0 to 2.

- Creatinine < 1.5 x ULN

- Life expectancy of at least 8 weeks.

- Age ≥ 18 years

- Women of childbearing potential must have a negative pregnancy test.

- Men and women of childbearing potential must be willing to consent to using effective
contraception while on treatment and for at least 1 months thereafter.

- Voluntary written informed consent.

- Conditions for Patient Ineligibility Patients meeting any of the following exclusion
criteria are not to be enrolled in the study.

- Must not have uncontrolled severe, intercurrent illness.

- Women who are breast-feeding.

- Patients who have undergone major surgery or radiotherapy within the last 3 weeks.

- Patients on concurrent anticancer therapy.

- Patients with known, untreated brain metastasis

- Co-medication that may interfere with study results; e.g opioids

- Known hypersensitivity to any component of naltrexone

- Current or prior alcohol dependence

- Patients who could benefit from conventional therapy are not eligible.