Prophylactic Mesalamine to Prevent Colitis Following Treatment With Ipilimumab/Nivolumab (Ipi/Nivo)

Trial statusRecruiting
Trial phasePhase 2
Trial typeInterventional
Biological sexAll
Age18+
SponsorAHS Cancer Control Alberta

About this trial

The study team's principal interest is to address the question, "Will prophylactic treatment with mesalamine reduce the incidence and severity of immune-related diarrhea occurring secondarily to treatment with ipi/nivo?"

Eligibility criteria

Qualifiers

Patients must be 18 years of age or older.

Patients with histologically confirmed, unresectable stage III or IV malignant melanoma.

Patients must be capable of providing consent to enrolment and treatment.

Patients with a performance status of ECOG 0-224 will be eligible for enrolment (see appendix16.1).

Disqualifiers

Clinically significant (i.e., active) cardiovascular disease: cerebral vascular accident/stroke (< 6 months prior to enrollment), myocardial infarction (< 6 months prior to enrollment), unstable angina, congestive heart failure (≥ New York Heart Association Classification Class II), or serious cardiac arrhythmia requiring medication.

Current use of immunosuppressive medication, EXCEPT for the following: a. intranasal, inhaled, topical steroids, or local steroid injection (e.g., intra-articular injection); b. Systemic corticosteroids at physiologic doses ≤ 10 mg/day of prednisone or equivalent; c. Steroids as premedication for hypersensitivity reactions (e.g., CT scan premedication).

Known prior severe hypersensitivity to investigational product or any component in its formulations, including known severe hypersensitivity reactions to monoclonal antibodies (CTCAE v5 Grade ≥ 3).

Other severe acute or chronic medical conditions or laboratory abnormalities that may increase the risk associated with study participation or study treatment administration or may interfere with the interpretation of study results and, in the judgment of the investigator, would make the patient inappropriate for entry into this study.

Trial design

Treatments tested in this trial

  • Mesalamine

Treatment groups

20 Participants
are divided into 1 treatment group

Sponsors and collaborators