Unresectable Melanoma

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Status: Recruiting

BiCaZO: A Study Combining Two Immunotherapies (Cabozantinib and Nivolumab) to Treat Patients With Advanced Melanoma or Squamous Cell Head and Neck Cancer, an immunoMATCH Pilot Study

This phase II trial studies the good and bad effects of the combination of drugs called cabozantinib and nivolumab in treating patients with melanoma or squamous cell head and neck cancer that may have spread from where it first started to nearby tissue, lymph nodes, or distant parts of the body (advanced). Cabozantinib may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking some of the enzymes needed for cell growth. Immunotherapy with monoclonal antibodies, such as nivolumab, may help the body's immune system attack the cancer, and may interfere with the ability of tumor cells to grow and spread. This trial may help doctors determine how quickly patients can be divided into groups based on biomarkers in their tumors. A biomarker is a biological molecule found in the blood, other body fluids, or in tissues that is a sign of a normal or abnormal process or a sign of a condition or disease. A biomarker may be used to see how well the body responds to a treatment for a disease or condition. The two biomarkers that this trial is studying are "tumor mutational burden" and "tumor inflammation signature." Another purpose of this trial is to help doctors learn if cabozantinib and nivolumab shrink or stabilize the cancer, and whether patients respond differently to the combination depending on the status of the biomarkers.

Participants needed: 150
Trial details
Phase: Phase 2Age: 18+Biological sex: AllType: InterventionalSponsor: National Cancer Institute (NCI)Updated: Jun 26, 2026Locations: 223
Eligibility criteria

STEP 1 - SPECIMEN SUBMISSION [+73]

Status: Recruiting

Study to Investigate Lifileucel Regimen Plus Pembrolizumab Compared With Pembrolizumab Alone in Participants With Untreated Advanced Melanoma.

This is a Phase 3, multicenter, open-label, randomized, parallel group, treatment study to assess the efficacy and safety of lifileucel in combination with pembrolizumab compared with pembrolizumab alone in participants with untreated, unresectable or metastatic melanoma. Participants randomized to the pembrolizumab monotherapy arm who subsequently have a blinded independent central review- verified confirmed progressive disease (PD) will be offered lifileucel monotherapy in an optional crossover period.

Participants needed: 670
Trial details
Phase: Phase 3Age: 18-70Biological sex: AllType: InterventionalSponsor: Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc.Updated: Jun 26, 2026Locations: 81
Eligibility criteria

Participant has a histologically or pathologically confirmed diagnosis of Stage... [+6]

Participant has melanoma of uveal/ocular origin. [+8]

Status: Recruiting

Personalized Neoantigen Peptide-Based Vaccine in Combination With Pembrolizumab for Treatment of Advanced Solid Tumors

This phase I/II trial tests the safety and tolerability of an experimental personalized vaccine when given by itself and with pembrolizumab in treating patients with solid tumor cancers that have spread to other places in the body (advanced). The experimental vaccine is designed target certain proteins (neoantigens) on individuals' tumor cells. Immunotherapy with monoclonal antibodies, such as pembrolizumab, may help the body's immune system attack the cancer, and may interfere with the ability of tumor cells to grow and spread. Giving the personalized neoantigen peptide-based vaccine with pembrolizumab may be safe and effective in treating patients with advanced solid tumors.

Participants needed: 132
Trial details
Phase: Phase 1, Phase 2Age: 16+Biological sex: AllType: InterventionalSponsor: Mayo ClinicUpdated: Jun 23, 2026Locations: 1
Eligibility criteria

Willing to provide tissue specimens per protocol [+82]

Pregnant person [+63]

Status: Recruiting

Immunotherapy in Combination With Prednisone and Sirolimus for Kidney Transplant Recipients With Unresectable or Metastatic Skin Cancer

This phase II trial tests the combination of nivolumab and ipilimumab with sirolimus and prednisone for the treatment of skin (cutaneous) cancer that cannot be removed by surgery (unresectable) or that has spread from where it first started to other places in the body (metastatic) in kidney transplant recipients. Immunotherapy with nivolumab and ipilimumab, may induce changes in body's immune system and may interfere with the ability of tumor cells to grow and spread. Sirolimus and prednisone are immunosuppressants that are given to keep the body from rejecting the transplanted kidney. Giving nivolumab and ipilimumab in combination with sirolimus and prednisone may kill more cancer cells, while also keeping the transplanted kidney healthy, in patients with unresectable or metastatic cutaneous cancer who have received a kidney transplant.

Participants needed: 16
Trial details
Phase: Phase 1, Phase 2Age: 18+Biological sex: AllType: InterventionalSponsor: National Cancer Institute (NCI)Updated: Jun 15, 2026Locations: 26
Eligibility criteria

Patients must be kidney transplant recipients with a functioning allograft who d... [+15]

Patients who have received a liver, lung, heart, or pancreas transplant; or allo... [+13]

Status: Recruiting

A Study to Investigate the Safety and Efficacy of IOV-3001 in Adults With Advanced Melanoma Who Will Receive Lifileucel

A Phase 1/2, open-label study of a modified interleukin-2 fusion protein (IOV 3001) in participants with previously treated, unresectable or metastatic melanoma who will receive lifileucel.

Participants needed: 42
Trial details
Phase: Phase 1, Phase 2Age: 18-70Biological sex: AllType: InterventionalSponsor: Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc.Updated: Jun 15, 2026Locations: 5
Eligibility criteria

Participant must be ≥ 18 years of age at the time of signing the informed consen... [+5]

Participant has symptomatic untreated brain metastases. [+7]

Status: Recruiting

A Study to Investigate the Efficacy and Safety of an Infusion of IOV-4001 in Adult Participants With Unresectable or Metastatic Melanoma or Stage III or IV Non-small-cell Lung Cancer

This is a study to investigate the efficacy and safety of an infusion of IOV-4001 in adult participants with unresectable or metastatic melanoma or advanced non-small-cell lung cancer (NSCLC).

Participants needed: 53
Trial details
Phase: Phase 1, Phase 2Age: 18-70Biological sex: AllType: InterventionalSponsor: Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc.Updated: Jun 11, 2026Locations: 11
Eligibility criteria

Participants must have a confirmed diagnosis of Stage IIIC, IIID, or IV unresect... [+12]

Participants who have melanoma of uveal/ocular origin. [+6]

Status: Recruiting

Dual-Target CSPG4/GD2 CAR-NK Cells for Advanced Melanoma

This is a first-in-human, open-label, multicenter phase 1/2 study evaluating the safety, feasibility, recommended phase 2 dose (RP2D), and preliminary antitumor activity of allogeneic dual-target CSPG4/GD2 CAR-NK cells (EBDTKN-401) after lymphodepleting chemotherapy in adults with unresectable or metastatic cutaneous melanoma or metastatic uveal melanoma whose disease has progressed after standard therapy

Participants needed: 36
Trial details
Phase: Phase 1, Phase 2Age: 18-75Biological sex: AllType: InterventionalSponsor: Beijing BiotechUpdated: Jun 4, 2026Locations: 1
Eligibility criteria

Age 18-75 years at consent. [+9]

Active symptomatic CNS metastases, leptomeningeal disease, or uncontrolled seizu... [+7]

Status: Recruiting

A Trial of LNS8801 With or Without Pembrolizumab in Patients With Refractory Melanoma

The goal of this clinical trial is to understand if a new drug called LNS8801 can safely treat patients with melanoma. The primary question to be answered is what is the average length of time during which melanoma does not grow or spread after starting treatment with LNS8801? Researchers will compare LNS8801 taken alone or LNS8801 taken together with another drug called pembrolizumab to other therapies as decided by the treating doctor. 135 patients will be randomly (like flipping a coin) placed in 3 treatment groups. In the first group (LNS8801 only) - Patients will take 125mg tablet of LNS8801 by mouth once per day every day for up to 2 years. In the second group (LNS8801 + pembrolizumab) - Patients will take 125mg tablet of LNS8801 by mouth once per day plus 200 mg of pembrolizumab by IV infusion once every 3 weeks for up to 2 years. In the third group, called Physician's Choice (PC), patients will receive chemotherapy (dacarbazine or temozolomide) or immunotherapy (pembrolizumab, nivolumab/relatlimab or nivolumab/ipilimumab) as determined by their treating physician. How often the patient visits the clinic visits will depend on the treatment group. Besides returning to the clinic for treatment, the patient will undergo periodic safety assessments and other required study procedures such as imaging assessments.

Participants needed: 135
Trial details
Phase: Phase 2, Phase 3Age: 18+Biological sex: AllType: InterventionalSponsor: Linnaeus Therapeutics, Inc.Updated: Apr 22, 2026Locations: 9
Eligibility criteria

Confirmed unresectable and/or metastatic cutaneous melanoma. [+7]

Blue nevus subtype, mucosal, acral lentiginous, or uveal/ocular/choroidal Melano... [+7]

Status: Available

Expanded Access Program of AMTAGVI That is Out of Specification for Commercial Release

The objective of this expanded access protocol is to provide access to Out Of Specification (OOS) AMTAGVI treatment to patients.

Trial details
Age: 18+Biological sex: AllType: Expanded AccessSponsor: Iovance Biotherapeutics, Inc.Updated: Apr 20, 2026Locations: 48
Eligibility criteria

Eligible for treatment with AMTAGVI per United States Prescribing Information (U... [+2]

History of hypersensitivity to cyclophosphamide, mesna, fludarabine, or any comp... [+5]

Status: Recruiting

Prebiotic Food-enriched Diet (PreFED) to Enhance the Microbiome and Response to First-line Immunotherapy in Unresectable Melanoma

To learn about the possible effects of a prebiotic food-enriched diet (PreFED) targeting the gut microbiome in participants with melanoma who are starting immune checkpoint blockade (ICB) therapy.

Participants needed: 75
Trial details
Phase: Phase 2Age: 18+Biological sex: AllType: InterventionalSponsor: M.D. Anderson Cancer CenterUpdated: Mar 24, 2026Locations: 1
Eligibility criteria

Age ≥18 years old [+10]

Previous ICB treatment in the metastatic setting [+12]

Status: Not yet recruiting

A Study To Assess the Safety, and Tolerability of Nivolumab + Relatlimab Fixed-Dose Combination (FDC) In Untreated, Unresectable or Metastatic Melanoma Participants In India

The purpose of this study is to assess the safety and tolerability of Nivolumab + Relatlimab Fixed-Dose Combination (FDC) in untreated, unresectable or metastatic melanoma participants in India

Participants needed: 30
Trial details
Phase: Phase 4Age: 12+Biological sex: AllType: InterventionalSponsor: Bristol-Myers SquibbUpdated: Mar 9, 2026Locations: 8
Eligibility criteria

Participants must have an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance... [+5]

Participants must not have active brain metastases or leptomeningeal metastases. [+6]

Status: Recruiting

Correlating Early FDG PET/CT and ctDNA in Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor (ICI)-Treated Melanoma Patients

The purpose of this research study is to determine if analysis of PET/CT scans and testing of blood samples in people with melanoma that has spread in their body can help researchers determine which patients are more or less likely to respond to immunotherapy and are more or less likely to have side effects. 24 participants will be enrolled and be on study until approximately 4 weeks after their first dose of Immune Checkpoint Inhibitor therapy.

Participants needed: 24
Trial details
Age: 18+Biological sex: AllType: ObservationalSponsor: University of Wisconsin, MadisonUpdated: Jan 20, 2026Locations: 1
Eligibility criteria

Willing to provide informed consent. [+5]

Not able to receive treatment with ICI therapy [+3]

Status: Recruiting

Interleukin-6 Receptor Inhibitor Sarilumab in Combination With Ipilimumab, Nivolumab and Relatlimab in Patients With Unresectable Stage III or Stage IV Melanoma

This study will evaluate how safe the study drug is, how well patients tolerate it, how it works in the body, and the disease's response to the drug. The study drug being tested is sarilumab, when given with the combination of ipilimumab, nivolumab, and relatlimab in patients like yourself, with stage III or stage IV melanoma that cannot be removed by surgery. Previous studies have provided a strong rationale for combining sarilumab, with ipilimumab, nivolumab and relatlimab in metastatic melanoma to reduce side effects and potentially work better for your type of cancer. Sarilumab is an FDA-approved inhibitor of the receptor for the cytokine IL-6, currently approved for the treatment of rheumatoid arthritis, but it is not FDA-approved to treat melanoma. This means that the use of Sarilumab to treat melanoma is considered investigational. The other drugs which will be administered in this study, ipilimumab and nivolumab, are also monoclonal antibodies, but they target different proteins. Ipilimumab and nivolumab are both approved by the FDA to treat advanced stage III and IV melanomas. The nivolumab + relatlimab FDC (fixed dose combination) being used in this study is considered investigational, meaning it is not approved by the FDA. The combination of sarilumab, ipilimumab, nivolumab and relatlimab is considered investigational because it has not yet been approved by the FDA. The FDA has given its permission to study the investigational combination of these drugs in this research study.

Participants needed: 105
Trial details
Phase: Phase 2Age: 18-100Biological sex: AllType: InterventionalSponsor: NYU Langone HealthUpdated: Jan 5, 2026Locations: 4
Eligibility criteria

Patients must have signed and dated an Institutional Review Board/Independent Et... [+7]

Patients with untreated brain metastases, carcinomatosis meningitis or current o... [+3]