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Melanoma (Skin)Phase 2/3DETECTIONNCT04901988

Circulating Tumour DNA guidEd Therapy for Stage IIB/C mElanoma After surgiCal resecTION

A Phase 2/3 study testing Nivolumab 10 MG/ML in people with Melanoma (Skin) and Melanoma, Stage II, run by The Christie NHS Foundation Trust at 1 site in United Kingdom.

Terminated

Stopped early. The study ended before it was planned to and will not resume.

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Trial summary

The trial is looking for new and better ways to treat melanoma, an aggressive type of skin cancer. Having surgery to remove the melanoma will cure the majority of patients with early stage disease. Read more about this study

Who is it for?
Ages 18 years and older
Conditions the study is for
Melanoma (Skin), Melanoma, Stage II
What is being tested?
Nivolumab 10 MG/ML
Type of treatment
Injection or infusion
Could I receive a placebo?
No, everyone receives an active treatment
How many people
8 participants
Where
1 siteUnited Kingdom
Study dates
8 Nov 2021to 30 Jan 2023
Phase
Phase 2/3
Are there results?
None posted in the registry

Key requirements

Who can take part, as listed by the sponsor. Only the study team can confirm whether you are eligible, so take this list to your doctor.

  • Ages 18 years and older
  • All sexes
  • No healthy volunteers
  • Adult, Older adult

Who may be able to join

  • Signed written informed consent.
  • Patients must be willing and able to comply with scheduled visits, treatment schedule, laboratory tests and other requirements of the study.
  • Histological confirmation of cutaneous melanoma
  • ≥ 18 years.
  • Stage IIB or IIC melanoma (sentinel lymph node (SNLB) staged) according to AJCC version 8 (4).
  • Complete resection (including SNLB) must have been performed within 12 weeks prior to registration.
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  • Disease-free status documented both clinically and radiologically within 4 weeks prior to registration.
  • Mutation confirmed in at least one of the following BRAF (p.V600E/p.V600K/p.V600R) /NRAS (p.Q61R/p.Q61K, p.Q61L/p.G12D), which can be tracked in ctDNA with exact point mutation known.
  • ECOG performance status 0/1.
  • Adequate organ function and screening laboratory values must meet the following criteria: WBC ≥ 2.0x109/L, Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) ≥1.5x109/L, Platelets ≥100 x109/L, Haemoglobin ≥90 g/L, Creatinine ≤1.5x ULN or creatinine clearance >30mL/minute using Cockcroft-Gault, AST ≤ 1.5 x ULN, ALT ≤ 1.5 x ULN, Bilirubin ≤1.5 x ULN unless the patient has familial hyperbilirubinaemia.
  • LDH ≤1.5x ULN as per local institution parameters.
  • Patients who are pregnant or breastfeeding will be eligible to join the trial. However, if they are allocated to Arm B, women of childbearing potential (WOCBP) must agree to have a serum or urine pregnancy test (minimum sensitivity 25 IU/L or equivalent units of HCG) and must be withdrawn if pregnant or breastfeeding. WOCBP and males who are sexually active with WOCBP must also agree to follow instructions for method(s) of contraception for the duration of treatment plus 5 months for WOCBP or plus 7 months for males who are sexually active with WOCBP (if randomised to Arm B or while receiving any systemic treatment and to follow local guidance if given on Arm A). See Appendix A for further information.

Who cannot join

  • If previously received prior immunotherapy, chemotherapy, cancer directed vaccine therapy or BRAF/MEK targeted therapy for cancer.
  • Patients with active, known or suspected autoimmune disease. Patients with type 1 diabetes mellitus, rheumatoid arthritis not requiring disease modifying drugs, hypothyroidism only requiring hormone replacement, skin disorders (such as vitiligo, psoriasis or alopecia) not requiring systemic treatment, or conditions not expected to recur in the absence of an external trigger will be permitted to enrol.
  • Current other malignancy or history of another malignancy within the last 3 years. Patients who have been disease-free for 3 years, (i.e. patients with second malignancies that have been definitively treated at least 3 years ago) or patients with a history of completely resected non-melanoma skin cancer are eligible.
  • Any serious or unstable pre-existing medical conditions (aside from malignancy exceptions specified above), psychiatric disorders, or other conditions that could interfere with the patient's safety, obtaining informed consent, or compliance with study procedures.
  • Patients with a condition requiring ongoing/long-term (>3 months) systemic treatment with either corticosteroids (>10 mg daily prednisone equivalent) or other immunosuppressive medications. Inhaled or topical steroids and adrenal replacement steroid doses ≤10 mg daily prednisolone equivalent are permitted in the absence of active autoimmune disease.
  • Patients with interstitial lung disease that is symptomatic or may interfere with the detection or management of suspected drug-related pulmonary toxicity.
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  • History of allergies or adverse drug reaction to any of the study drug components or to any monoclonal antibody.
  • Known Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV), Hepatitis B Virus (HBV), or Hepatitis C Virus (HCV) infection.
  • Prisoners or patients who are involuntarily incarcerated.

Trial locations and contacts

1 site in 1 country.

United Kingdom1 site
  • The Christie NHS Foundation Trust

    Manchester, Greater Manchester, M204BJ

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About this study

Official title: Circulating Tumour DNA guidEd Therapy for Stage IIB/C mElanoma After surgiCal resecTION (DETECTION)

The trial is looking for new and better ways to treat melanoma, an aggressive type of skin cancer. Having surgery to remove the melanoma will cure the majority of patients with early stage disease. However, a small percentage of these patients will go on to develop further disease, which may spread to other places in their body.

Currently, patients who have been cured of melanoma will have appointments in clinic to check that further disease has not developed or returned and some may also receive regular scans.

Read more

The trial team has developed a blood test that tells us whether cancer cells are still present or is becoming active after a patient has been 'cured' of melanoma, even if a scan looks normal. The test looks for pieces of DNA in the blood that are known to have come from the cancer, which we call 'circulating tumour DNA', or ctDNA. Patients who have ctDNA in their blood have an extremely high chance of the cancer returning.

By using the blood test that we have developed we think that we can identify patients earlier than normal. We think that some of the treatments that are used when melanoma cancer has spread may benefit patients at this earlier stage.

We want to see if these patients with ctDNA in their blood, who have a higher risk of their cancer returning or spreading, and receive treatment early have a better response to their cancer compared to those patients who receive treatment when their cancer has returned and it can be seen on a scan. This could mean we would be able to offer patients earlier treatment in the future using just a blood test rather than a scan, while also providing reassurance to those patients that do not have ctDNA in their blood that they do not need treatment and their cancer is not returning.

Being tested
Nivolumab 10 MG/ML
Medical subject headings
Melanoma

What participants receive

What participants receive. In a randomised study each person is assigned to one group by chance.

  • Nivolumab 10 MG/MLDrug

    Eligible patients randomised to Arm B will receive 480 mg nivolumab monotherapy 4 weekly via IV infusion for up to 2 years.

Study groups in NCT04901988
Study groupRoleWhat they receive
Arm ANo interventionIn Arm A, patients and clinicians will remain blinded to the ctDNA result and will be managed as per standard of care with regular clinical review and imaging, and treated if they develop evidence of disease recurrence.
Arm BExperimentalPatients randomised to Arm B will not be blinded to the positive ctDNA result and will be treated with the intervention.
Receives: Drug: Nivolumab 10 MG/ML

What is being measured

The primary outcome is the main question the study is designed to answer.

  1. Overall Survival (OS)

    Measured: From randomisation until death by any cause, assessed up to 84 months.

Secondary outcomes (13)
  1. Relapse Free Survival

    Measured: From randomisation to radiological (recist v1.1)/clinical (confirmed histologically) progression, assessed up to 84 months.

  2. Distant metastasis free survival(DMFS)

    Measured: From randomisation to distant metastatic relapse or death, assessed up to 84 months.

  3. Progression-free survival (PFS) on first line therapy (commenced in Arm A at relapse, and Arm B from randomisation).

    Measured: From start of treatment (day of first dose) until disease progression defined as clinical (confirmed pathologically) or radiological (recist v1.1) progression or death, assessed up to 84 months.

  4. Time from randomisation to disease progression on first line systemic therapy (Arm A first systemic therapy given at relapse, and Arm B nivolumab from randomisation).

    Measured: Time from randomisation to disease progression on first line systemic therapy (Arm A first systemic therapy given at relapse, and Arm B nivolumab from randomisation), assessed up to 84 months.

  5. Radiological response in Arm A (CR, PR, SD and PD) and PD vs. no PD in Arm B to first line systemic therapy.

    Measured: Radiological response in Arm A (CR, PR, SD and PD) and PD vs. no PD in Arm B to first line systemic therapy, assessed up to 84 months.

  6. Time from registration to ctDNA detection.

    Measured: Time from registration to ctDNA detection, assessed at registration and then every 3 months (year 1 to 3) and every 6 months (year 4 and 5).

  7. Number of patients with undetectable ctDNA (not detectable according to the DETECTION assay), but clinical/radiological progression and site of progression (local or distant in addition to organ site).

    Measured: From registration to clinical/radiological progression with undetectable ctDNA, assessed up to 84 months.

  8. RFS of patients with undetectable ctDNA (not randomised) vs. patients with detectable ctDNA in Arm A.

    Measured: From registration to radiological (recist v1.1)/clinical (confirmed histologically) progression in not randomised and in Arm A participants, assessed up to 84 months.

  9. DMFS of patients with undetectable ctDNA (not randomised) vs. patients with detectable ctDNA in Arm A.

    Measured: From registration to distant metastatic relapse or death in not randomised and in Arm A participants, assessed up to 84 months.

  10. OS defined as time from registration until death of patients with undetectable ctDNA (not randomised) vs. patients in Arm A.

    Measured: From registration until death of patients with undetectable ctDNA (not randomised) vs. patients in Arm A, assessed up to 84 months.

  11. To assess treatment-free survival.

    Defined as the area between Kaplan-Meier curves between time to first line therapy cessation defined as time from initiation of first line therapy until its cessation and time to subsequent therapy initiation or death defined as time from initiation of first line therapy until initiation of subsequent systemic anticancer therapy or death in Arm A vs. Arm B.

    Measured: Time to first line therapy cessation, assessed up to 84 months.

  12. Toxicity measured according to Common Terminology Criteria for Adverse Events (CTCAE) v5.0.

    Measured: From consent until the end of the trial or until disease progression and at least 100 days post the last treatment dose of nivolumab, assessed up to 84 months.

  13. Health economics assessment as assessed by EQ-5D-5L and resource use questionnaires.

    Measured: At registration and every 6 months for both monitoring and post randomisation, with an additional questionnaire at baseline prior to therapy on Arm B and at relapse and every 6 Mo until relapse on first line therapy on Arm A, assessed up to 84 months.

Timeline

From the start of the study to its completion; the mark is today. Estimated dates are the sponsor’s plan.

  1. First posted26 May 2021
  2. Study start8 Nov 2021
  3. Primary completion30 Jan 2023
  4. Study completion30 Jan 2023

Why it stopped: Closed earlier than expected due to the need for a redesign to reflect the recent change in standard of care guidelines. New design will include these treatments.

Resources

More details

For doctors and researchers: how the study is designed, who runs it, and its registry IDs.

Study design
Study type
Interventional
Phase
Phase 2/3
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Randomised
Intervention model
Parallel groups
Masking
None (open label)
Enrolment
8 participants (actual)
IDs, dates and publications
ClinicalTrials.gov ID
NCT04901988
Sponsor's protocol ID
CFTSp135
Acronym
DETECTION
Status last verified
Apr 2023
First submitted
16 Apr 2021
Last updated
27 Feb 2025
Results posted
No
Data monitoring committee
Yes
FDA-regulated drug
Yes
FDA-regulated device
No
Individual data sharing
Yes: At the end of the trial, after the primary results have been published, the de-identified individual participant data (IPD) and associated documentation (e.g. protocol, statistical analysis plan, annotated blank CRF) will be prepared in order to be shared with external researchers. All requests for access to the IPD will be reviewed by an internal committee at the Clinical Trials Unit (CTU) and discussed with the Chief Investigator in accordance with the CTU policy on data sharing. All data sharing must be authorised by the Sponsor.

Questions about this trial

What is this clinical trial studying?

A Phase 2/3 study testing Nivolumab 10 MG/ML in people with Melanoma (Skin) and Melanoma, Stage II, run by The Christie NHS Foundation Trust at 1 site in United Kingdom.

The full registered description is in the About this study section and the official record.

Who may be eligible to take part?

The sponsor lists 12 inclusion and 9 exclusion criteria. Eligibility is decided by the study team after screening, so read the full criteria and contact a listed site.

Is this clinical trial currently recruiting?

The record says: stopped early, as of the sponsor's last update on 27 Feb 2025. Status can change between updates, so confirm with the study contact before making plans.

Where is the study taking place?

The record lists 1 site in United Kingdom. Whether a site is taking part right now should be confirmed with that site. See every site.

What are the possible benefits and risks?

They depend on the study and the treatment, and no study can promise a benefit. The study team explains the known risks during informed consent, before anyone joins; the record itself does not list them.

What does this combined phase mean?

Phase 2 studies give the treatment to a larger group to see whether it has the intended effect and to keep checking safety.

Phase 3 studies compare the treatment with the current standard treatment or a placebo in a large group, to confirm how well it works and watch for side effects.

Not every study follows the same path, and some studies (observational studies, device studies) have no phase.

Are results available for this study?

The study was stopped early (reason given: Closed earlier than expected due to the need for a redesign to reflect the recent change in standard of care guidelines. New design will include these treatments.). Results are not available in the source record.

How can a doctor refer a patient or contact the research team?

The record lists no contact. The official record names the sponsor, who can be asked directly. AzTrials does not enrol participants or take referrals.

What does the primary outcome measure?

Overall Survival (OS) (time frame: From randomisation until death by any cause, assessed up to 84 months.). It is what the study was designed to measure, not a finding.

Where can I read the original study information?
Does a listing mean the treatment is approved or proven to work?

No. A listing means the study is registered. It does not show that the treatment is safe, works, or is approved by a regulator.

How often is this information updated?

AzTrials copies changed records from ClinicalTrials.gov every night and reloads the whole registry every week. The sponsor last updated this record on 27 Feb 2025.

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