Trial of Vemurafenib and Cobimetinib in Patients With Advanced BRAFV600 Mutant Melanoma
Status: | Recruiting |
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Conditions: | Skin Cancer |
Therapuetic Areas: | Oncology |
Healthy: | No |
Age Range: | 18 - Any |
Updated: | 4/21/2016 |
Start Date: | August 2015 |
Contact: | Kim Palmer |
Email: | kpalmer1@jhmi.edu |
Phone: | 410-616-7660 |
An Exploratory Study of the Immunological Effects of Vemurafenib and Cobimetinib, Administered Alone and in Combination, in Subjects With Advanced BRAF V600E/K Mutant Melanoma
This trial explores the immunologic effects of vemurafenib (BRAF inhibitor) and cobimetinib
(MEK inhibitor), administered alone and in combination, to patients with advanced BRAF
V600E/K mutant melanoma.
(MEK inhibitor), administered alone and in combination, to patients with advanced BRAF
V600E/K mutant melanoma.
Inclusion Criteria:
- Signed informed consent
- Signed HIV testing consent
- Life expectancy ≥ 12 weeks
- Able to swallow pills
- ECOG performance status 2 or less
- Adequate bone marrow function
- Adequate renal function
- Adequate liver function
- Negative urine pregnancy test within 7 days prior to commencement of dosing in
premenopausal women
- Histological diagnosis of unresectable AJCC stage III or stage IV, BRAFV600E/K mutant
melanoma
- Measurable disease
- Accessible tumor that can be biopsied
- Naive to targeted therapy (Prior immune-based therapy in the adjuvant setting or for
advanced disease will be allowed if >2 weeks from study entry)
Exclusion Criteria:
- Active systemic infection
- Active autoimmune disease or history of known or suspected autoimmune disease
- Active brain metastases or leptomeningeal metastases
- Treatment with any immunomodulatory medication within 4 weeks of initiation of study
therapy.
- Positive test for hepatitis B virus
- Positive test for hepatitis C virus
- Positive test for human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)
- Pregnant, lactating or breast feeding women
- Localized radiation therapy within the last 14 days
- History of malabsorption
- No consumption of the following within 7 days prior to start of treatment:
- St. John's wort or hyperforin (potent cytochrome P450 CYP3A4 enzyme inducer)
- Grapefruit juice (potent cytochrome P450 CYP3A4 enzyme inhibitor
- History or evidence of cardiovascular risk
- History or evidence of retinal pathology
We found this trial at
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site
Baltimore, Maryland 21231
410-955-6190
Principal Investigator: Evan J Lipson, M.D.
Phone: 410-955-6605
Sidney Kimmel Comprehensive Cancer Center at Johns Hopkins The name Johns Hopkins has become synonymous...
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