Prostaglandin Inhibition and PD-1/CTLA4 Blockade in Melanoma

PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To evaluate the overall response rate (ORR) by week 12 in patients with stage III
unresectable/stage IV melanoma.

SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:

I. To determine the median progression free survival, overall survival, and toxicity profile
of the combination of ipilimumab, pembrolizumab and high dose aspirin in patients with stage
III unresectable/IV melanoma.

OUTLINE:

Patients receive pembrolizumab intravenously (IV) over 30 minutes on day 1, ipilimumab IV
over 60 minutes on day 1 for courses 1-4, and aspirin orally (PO) twice daily (BID) on days
1-21. Courses repeat every 3 weeks in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable
toxicity.

After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up for 30 days.

Inclusion Criteria:

- Patients must have histologically confirmed melanoma that is metastatic or
unresectable and for which standard curative or palliative measures do not exist or
are no longer effective

- Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0 to 1

- Leukocytes >= 3,000/mcL

- Absolute neutrophil count >= 1,500/mcL

- Platelets >= 100,000/mcL

- Total bilirubin within normal institutional limits

- Total bilirubin =< 1.5 X institutional upper limit

- Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) (serum glutamic-oxaloacetic transaminase [SGOT]) =<
2.5 X institutional upper limit of normal

- Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) (serum glutamate pyruvate transaminase [SGPT]) =< 2.5 X
institutional upper limit of normal

- Creatinine =< 1.5 X upper limit of normal (ULN)

- Women of childbearing potential should have a negative urine or serum pregnancy within
72 hours prior to receiving the first dose of study drug; if the urine test is
positive or cannot be confirmed as negative, a serum pregnancy test will be required

- Women of childbearing potential must be willing to use an adequate method of
contraception, for the course of the study through 120 days after the last dose of
study medication; Note: Abstinence is acceptable if this is the usual lifestyle and
preferred contraception for the subject

- Men of childbearing potential must agree to use an adequate method of contraception,
starting with the first dose of study therapy through 120 days after the last dose of
study therapy; Note: Abstinence is acceptable if this is the usual lifestyle and
preferred contraception for the subject

- Ability to understand a written informed consent document, and the willingness to sign
it

Exclusion Criteria:

- Any mental or physical condition or disease or past medical history that mitigates
against following the protocol

- History of active autoimmune diseases such as but not limited to Crohn?s disease,
ulcerative colitis, Sjogren?s syndrome, requiring active immune suppression; patient
may have hay fever or controlled asthma

- Any solid organ transplant or bone marrow transplant

- Any other malignancy except localized prostate cancer, basal or squamous cell skin
cancer, localized cervical cancer or breast cancer that has been curatively treated

- Uncontrolled central nervous system (CNS) metastasis; patients with CNS metastasis can
be eligible if definitively treated with radiotherapy or surgery

- Any coexistent medical condition interfering with drug absorption

- History of gastritis or malabsorption syndrome or aspirin intolerance or allergy

- Live vaccination within the last 30 days

- History of multiple sclerosis, type 1 diabetes mellitus (DM) or Guillain-Barre
syndrome

- Is pregnant or breastfeeding, or expecting to conceive or father children within the
projected duration of the trial, starting with the screening visit through 120 days
after the last dose of trial treatment