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CompletedNCT02307149MITCIUpdated Jan 17, 2023

Intratumoral CAVATAK (CVA21) and Ipilimumab in Patients With Advanced Melanoma (VLA-013 MITCI)

A Phase 1 interventional study of CAVATAK and Ipilimumab in Melanoma, sponsored by Viralytics. Completed at 11 sites in United States. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2023-01-17.

Sponsored by Viralytics · Phase 1, Interventional, and Treatment

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Phase
Phase 1
Study type
Interventional
Enrollment
50
Allocation
Not applicable
Ages
18 Years and older
Sex
All
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Where this study stands

Counted across the records on this site · 2026-11-14

Among 2,048 studies in Melanoma with a site in United States — 243 open to participants now, 439 under way, 32 of them phase 3. Melanoma · United States.

Enrollment
701st of 1,748
50 · median 37
Started
2015
with 107 others
Phase 1
647 of 2,048
54 open now
Registered
1,049th of 2,048
by date

Among the 2,048 studies in Melanoma with a site in United States, this one is the 701st largest by enrollment of the 1,748 interventional ones that give a count, is one of 108 that started in 2015, is one of 647 in phase 1, and was the 1,049th registered.

Melanoma

3,372 studies on the registry are indexed under Melanoma; 580 are open to participants now.

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Open to participants now

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Who these studies take

Of the 468 Melanoma studies recruiting now, 381 (81%) set no upper age limit and 49 (10%) stop at 75 or younger; 47 take children under 18; 29 take healthy volunteers.

This study: 18 Years and older · all sexes · no healthy volunteers.

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Study summary

Open label, single arm study of intratumoral CVA21 and ipilimumab in advanced melanoma patients.

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Primary Objective:

To evaluate the safety and efficacy of CAVATAK (CVA21) administered intratumorally in combination with the approved dose and schedule of ipilimumab. Of particular interest is to estimate the overall response rate (ORR) in the subgroup of subjects with unresectable or metastatic stage III B/C or IV melanoma who have progressed on a single prior anti-PD-1 therapy.

Secondary Objectives:

  1. Assess the clinical efficacy of ipilimumab in combination with intratumoral CVA21 in terms of:

    • Immune-related progression-free survival (irPFS) at 6 and 12 months,
    • Durable response rate (DRR),
    • 1-year survival,
    • Overall survival (OS), and
    • Quality of life.
  2. Assess the response of injected and non-injected melanoma lesions after CVA21 and ipilimumab.
  3. Assess the time to initial response.
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Conditions studied

  • Melanoma

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Keywords

  • melanoma
  • ipilimumab
  • coxsackievirus A21
  • CAVATAK
  • CVA21
  • checkpoint inhibitors
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Who can participate

Ages eligible
18 Years and older
Sexes eligible
All
Accepts healthy volunteers
No

Eligibility criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

  1. Patients with unresectable or stage III B/C or IV melanoma. Patients enrolled under this version of the protocol must also have progressed on prior therapy, according to 1.1 criteria. Patients who progressed within 3 months of treatment start are excluded.
  2. Patients must have at least one cutaneous or subcutaneous tumor, measuring 0.5 to 5.0 cm in the longest diameter, or a palpable lymph node. At least one tumor must qualify as an index lesion that can be accurately and reproducibly measured in two dimensions for which the longest diameter is .10 mm (.15 mm in short axis diameter [SAD] for lymph nodes), and be amenable to intratumoral injection.
  3. Histological confirmation of melanoma will be required by previous or cytology.
  4. Patients who have received prior ipilimumab treatment for metastatic melanoma are not eligible.
  5. Patients with ≤ 3 visceral metastases (excluding pulmonary lesions), with no lesions >3.0 cm. Patients with substantial tumor burden of non- may not be good candidates for an immunotherapy and should be discussed with the Medical Monitor.
  1. performance status of 0-1.

Key Exclusion Criteria:

  1. Patients with tumors to be injected lying close to an airway, major blood vessel or spinal cord that, in the opinion of the Investigator, could cause occlusion or compression in the case of tumor swelling or erosion into a major vessel in the case of necrosis. Patients with lesions in mucosal areas (vulvar, anus, oral cavity, etc.), are eligible, as long as the subject has at least one lesion suitable for injection; consult Medical Monitor for confirmation.
  2. Patients with active, known or suspected disease except for autoimmune thyroiditis or vitiligo. Thyroiditis patients must be asymptomatic, on adequate thyroid replacement and have normal thyroid function tests.
  3. Patients with active colitis or immune-mediated colitis that has not resolved to grade 1 or less.
  4. Patients with untreated . Patients with treated brain metastases who are off for at least two weeks and who demonstrate control of brain metastases with follow-up imaging 4 or more weeks after initial therapy are eligible.
  5. Patients previously treated with CVA21.
Terms in these criteria, in plain language(9)

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Metastases

Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.

PD-1, PD-L1 and checkpoint inhibitors

PD-1, PD-L1 and CTLA-4 are proteins that act as brakes on the immune system. Checkpoint inhibitors, such as pembrolizumab or nivolumab, block them so the immune system can attack a cancer.

PD-L1 can also be measured in a tumour sample. Some scores count stained tumour cells only (TPS); others also count certain immune cells (CPS). The study names the score and the minimum it uses.

RECIST

The standard rules for measuring tumours on CT or MRI scans, to tell whether a cancer is shrinking, stable or growing during treatment.

“Measurable disease per RECIST 1.1” usually means at least one tumour 10 mm or more at its longest on a CT scan, or a lymph node 15 mm or more across its short axis.

Biopsy and archival tissue

A biopsy takes a small piece of tissue to examine. “Archival tissue” is a sample already taken, for example at diagnosis, and kept by the hospital.

Whether a stored sample will do depends on when it was taken, how much there is and what the study needs. Ask whether the study accepts your stored sample or needs a new biopsy.

Measurable disease

The amount of disease can be tracked with a defined measurement, so the study can see whether it shrinks or grows. It might be a tumour measured on a scan or, in some blood cancers such as myeloma, a marker measured in blood or urine.

The criteria or the study team say which measurement counts — having no tumour visible on a scan does not by itself rule you out.

ECOG performance status

A scale of how much an illness limits everyday activity. For people being assessed to join a study, scores run from 0 (fully active) to 4; lower is more active.

0
Fully active, no restrictions.
1
Limited in strenuous activity, but walking and able to do light work, such as housework or office work.
2
Walking and able to look after yourself, but unable to work; up and about more than half of waking hours.
3
Able to look after yourself only in part; in bed or a chair more than half of waking hours.
4
Unable to look after yourself at all; in bed or a chair all day.

Studies most often ask for 0–1 or 0–2. Your doctor gives the score; the WHO scale uses the same steps. The full scale also has 5, which records death.

Autoimmune disease

A condition in which the immune system attacks the body’s own tissues, such as rheumatoid arthritis, lupus, psoriasis, type 1 diabetes or inflammatory bowel disease.

Immunotherapy studies often leave out active autoimmune disease, and some name exceptions, such as thyroid disease on replacement hormone. Check the exceptions this study lists.

Brain metastases

Cancer deposits in the brain from a cancer that started elsewhere in the body (CNS metastases include the spinal cord).

Studies differ: some leave out any brain metastases, some accept ones treated and stable for some weeks. Check what this study allows.

Corticosteroids (steroids)

Anti-inflammatory medicines such as prednisone, prednisolone and dexamethasone — not the anabolic steroids used for muscle.

Studies differ in what they allow: check which steroid medicines, routes (tablets, injections, creams, inhalers, eye drops) and doses this study accepts.

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Study design

Phase
Phase 1
Primary purpose
Treatment
Allocation
Not applicable
Intervention model
Single group
Masking
None (open label)
Enrollment
50 participants (actual)

Study arms

  • Experimental
    CAVATAK and ipilimumab

    CAVATAK intratumoral injection up to a total dose of 3 x 10⁸ TCID50 and ipilimumab intravenously at the recommended dose of 3 mg/kg

    Biological: CAVATAK · Drug: Ipilimumab

Interventions

  • BiologicalCAVATAK

    CAVATAK is a preparation of CVA21

    Also known as: Coxsackievirus A21, CVA21

  • Ipilimumab is a human cytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen (CTLA-4)-blocking antibody indicated for the treatment of unresectable or metastatic melanoma

    Also known as: Yervoy®

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What researchers measure

Primary outcomes

  1. Response

    Best response of complete response (CR) or partial response (PR)

    Time frame: 106 days

Secondary outcomes

  1. DRR

    Durable Response Rate

    Time frame: lasting 26 weeks or longer

  2. PFS

    Progression-Free Survival

    Time frame: At 6 and 12 months

  3. OS

    Overall

    Time frame: Through study completion, an average of 2 years

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Study locations

11 sites
  • City of Hope National Medical Center,
    Duarte, California 91010, United States
  • UC San Diego Moores Cancer Center
    La Jolla, California 92093, United States
  • The Angeles Clinic & Research Institute
    Los Angeles, California 90025, United States
  • John Wayne Cancer Institute
    Santa Monica, California 90404, United States
  • Sylvester Comprehensive Cancer Center
    Miami, Florida 33136, United States
  • Advocate Health, SC
    Park Ridge, Illinois 60068, United States
  • Massachusetts General Hospital
    Boston, Massachusetts 02114, United States
  • Dana Farber Cancer Institute
    Boston, Massachusetts 02215, United States
  • Atlantic Melanoma Center
    Morristown, New Jersey 07960, United States
  • Providence Portland Medical Center
    Portland, Oregon 97213, United States
  • Huntsman Cancer Institute
    Salt Lake City, Utah 84112, United States
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References and documents

Publications

  • Curti BD, Richards J, Hyngstrom JR, Daniels GA, Faries M, Feun L, Margolin KA, Hallmeyer S, Grose M, Zhang Y, Li A, Andtbacka RHI. Intratumoral oncolytic virus V937 plus ipilimumab in patients with advanced melanoma: the phase 1b MITCI study. J Immunother Cancer. 2022 Dec;10(12):e005224. doi: 10.1136/jitc-2022-005224. PubMed 36564126 ↗

Individual participant data

Plan to share: Yes — http://engagezone.msd.com/doc/ProcedureAccessClinicalTrialData.pdf

Data sharing details ↗ · engagezone.msd.com

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Timeline

Tracking since Sep 25, 2026
ElapsedEstimatedEstimated, not yet reachedSimilar studies: half by the dot; the band is the middle halfHalf of similar studies reached it by the dot; the band is the middle half, from a quarter to three quarters

Ran from May 2015 to primary completion in Nov 2019, 54 months.

Of 225 industry-sponsored phase 1 interventional studies under Melanoma, half reached primary completion within 46 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 28 and three quarters within 66. This study's 54 months is above that.

Counting every sponsor, half of 411 studies reached it within 49 months; a quarter within 31 and three quarters within 76.

How these figures are worked out, and which studies are left out of them.

Registered
Nov 26, 2014
First posted
Dec 4, 2014
StartActual
May 5, 2015
Primary completionActual
Nov 5, 2019
CompletionActual
Nov 5, 2019
Last update
Jan 17, 2023
What these dates mean
Start.
When the first participant enrolled; while estimated, when the study expects to open to recruitment.
Primary completion.
When the last participant was examined or treated to collect data for the study's main question, its primary outcome. A study that stopped early gives the date its data collection stopped.
Completion.
When the last participant's last visit took place, for every outcome, secondary ones and side effects included: the end of the study. Often later than primary completion, sometimes the same day.
Actual and Est.
Actual means the registry says the date has happened. Est. (estimated) is a date the sponsor plans or expects. It can still move, and the sponsor is expected to change it to actual once it has passed.
No changes since tracking began. The registry record was last updated on Jan 17, 2023, before this site started recording changes on Sep 25, 2026. Its history is on ClinicalTrials.gov ↗
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Registry details

Key details

Study ID
NCT02307149
Lead sponsor
Viralytics
Collaborators
Providence Health & Services
Responsible party
Sponsor
First posted
Dec 4, 2014
Start date
May 5, 2015
Primary completion
Nov 5, 2019
Completion
Nov 5, 2019
Last update
Jan 17, 2023

Study contacts

Brendan Curti, MD
principal investigator · Providence Health & Services
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