A Phase 1 interventional study of Biospecimen Collection and Cabozantinib in Autoimmune Disease, Crohn Disease and Dermatomyositis, sponsored by National Cancer Institute (NCI). Recruiting at 52 sites in 2 countries. Open to participants aged 18 Years and older. Per ClinicalTrials.gov, last updated 2026-10-05.
Sponsored by National Cancer Institute (NCI) · Phase 1, Interventional, and Treatment
This phase Ib trial studies the side effects of nivolumab and to see how well it works alone and in combination with other treatments, such as ipilimumab, cabozantinib, platinum containing therapy, and fluoropyrimidine, in treating patients with autoimmune disorders and cancer that has spread from where it first started (primary site) to nearby tissue, lymph nodes, or distant parts of the body (advanced), to other places in the body (metastatic) or cannot removed by surgery (unresectable). Immunotherapy with monoclonal antibodies, such as nivolumab and ipilimumab, may help the body's immune system attack the cancer, and may interfere with the ability of tumor cells to grow and spread. Cabozantinib blocks certain proteins, which may help keep tumor cells from growing. It may also prevent the growth of new blood vessels that tumors need to grow. Cabozantinib is a type of tyrosine kinase inhibitor and a type of angiogenesis inhibitor. Chemotherapy drugs, such as platinum containing therapies and fluoropyrimidine, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells, by stopping them from dividing, or by stopping them from spreading. Giving nivolumab alone and in combination with other treatments, including ipilimumab, cabozantinib, platinum containing therapy, or fluoropyrimidine, may be safe, tolerable, and/or effective in treating patients with autoimmune disorders and advanced, metastatic, or unresectable cancer.
PRIMARY OBJECTIVES:
I. To assess the overall safety, and toxicities associated with the use of the anti-programmed death 1 (PD-1) antibody nivolumab in patients with varying severity of dermatomyositis (DM)/systemic sclerosis (SSc), rheumatoid arthritis (RA), systemic lupus erythematosus (SLE), inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) (ulcerative colitis [UC] and Crohn's disease [CD]), multiple sclerosis (MS), Sjogren's syndrome [SjS], psoriasis (PsO)/psoriatic arthritis (PsA), and other autoimmune diseases.
II. To assess the overall safety, and toxicities associated with the use of the anti-programmed death 1 (PD-1) antibody nivolumab and other Food and Drug Administration (FDA)-approved combinations for given oncologic indications in patients with varying severity of DM/SSc, RA, SLE, IBD (ulcerative colitis [UC] and Crohn's disease [CD]), MS, Sjogren's syndrome [SjS], psoriasis (PsO)/psoriatic arthritis (PsA), and other autoimmune diseases.
SECONDARY OBJECTIVES:
I. To evaluate the efficacy of nivolumab in terms of objective response rates (ORRs), progression-free survival (PFS), and overall survival (OS) in patients with cancer and DM/SSc, RA, SLE, IBD (UC and CD), MS, SjS, PsO/PsA, and other autoimmune diseases.
II. To observe and record anti-tumor activity. III. To propose dosing recommendations for anti-PD-1 antibodies based on the severity of the autoimmune disorder.
IV. To evaluate the impact of nivolumab on the disease severity indices for: DM/SSc, RA, SLE, IBD: UC and CD, not specified (NS), MS, SjS, PsO/PsA.
V. To identify biomarkers of response and toxicity.
OUTLINE: Patients are assigned to 1 of 11 arms.
ARM I (MONOTHERAPY): Patients may receive single agent nivolumab intravenously (IV) over 30 minutes every 4 weeks for up to 2 years for patients with metastatic indications, for up to 1 year for adjuvant indications or for up to 3 months after surgery for neoadjuvant indications in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
ARM II (UNRESECTABLE OR METASTATIC MELANOMA): Patients receive nivolumab IV over 30 minutes every 2 or 4 weeks in combination with ipilimumab IV every 3 weeks for up to 4 doses of combination therapy in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Treatment with nivolumab may continue every 4 weeks in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
ARM III (NEOADJUVANT TREATMENT OF RESECTABLE NON-SMALL CELL LUNG CANCER [NSCLC]): Patients receive nivolumab IV over 30 minutes in combination with platinum doublet therapy every 3 weeks for up to 3 cycles in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
ARM IV (METASTATIC PD-L1 POSITIVE NSCLC): Patients receive nivolumab IV over 30 minutes every 3 weeks and ipilimumab IV every 6 weeks for up to 2 years in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
ARM V (METASTATIC OR RECURRENT NSCLC): Patients receive nivolumab IV over 30 minutes every 3 weeks, ipilimumab IV every 6 weeks and platinum doublet therapy every 3 weeks for up to 2 cycles of combination therapy. Treatment with nivolumab and ipilimumab repeats for up to 2 years in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
ARM VI (MALIGNANT PLEURAL MESOTHELIOMA): Patients receive nivolumab IV over 30 minutes every 3 weeks and ipilimumab IV every 6 weeks for up to 2 years in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
ARM VII (ADVANCED RENAL CELL CARCINOMA [RCC]): Patients receive nivolumab IV over 30 minutes in combination with ipilimumab IV every 3 weeks for up to 4 doses of combination therapy in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients may continue to receive single agent nivolumab every 2 or 4 weeks in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients may optionally receive nivolumab IV every 2 or 4 weeks in combination with cabozantinib orally (PO) once daily (QD) for up to 2 years of combination therapy in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Treatment with single agent cabozantinib may continue in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
ARM VIII (MICROSATELLITE INSTABILITY-HIGH [MSI-H] OR MISMATCH REPAIR DEFICIENT [dMMR] METASTATIC COLORECTAL CANCER): Patient receive nivolumab IV over 30 minutes every 2 or 4 weeks in combination with ipilimumab IV every 3 weeks for up to 4 doses of combination therapy in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients may continue to receive single agent nivolumab every 2 or 4 weeks in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
ARM IX (HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMA [HCC]): Patients receive nivolumab IV over 30 minutes in combination with ipilimumab IV every 3 weeks for up to 4 doses of combination therapy. Patients may continue to receive single agent nivolumab every 2 or 4 weeks in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
ARM X (ESOPHAGEAL SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA): Patients receive nivolumab IV over 30 minutes every 2 or 4 weeks in combination with fluoropyrimidine and platinum-containing chemotherapy for up to 2 years in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity OR receive nivolumab IV every 2 or 3 weeks in combination with ipilimumab IV every 6 weeks for up to 2 years in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients may then continue receiving fluoropyrimidine and platinum-containing chemotherapy in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
ARM XI (GASTRIC CANCER, GASTROESOPHAGEAL JUNCTION CANCER, AND ESOPHAGEAL ADENOCARCINOMA): Patients receive nivolumab IV over 30 minutes in combination with fluoropyrimidine and platinum-containing chemotherapy every 2 or 3 weeks for up to 2 years in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.
Patients also undergo collection of blood, cerebrospinal fluid (CSF), tissue, stool, and urine samples throughout the trial.
After completion of study treatment, patients without disease progression are followed for 100 days, and patients with disease progression are followed every 12 weeks for up to 5 years.
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Patients can have either confirmed that is radiologically evaluable and or unresectable, or have a malignancy for which a /PD-L1 inhibitor has been approved in the setting, as well as the neoadjuvant or perioperative setting in which such treatment is considered standard of care or has been approved. Eligible tumor types include solid tumors and malignancies in which there is known evidence of clinical activity for single agent PD-1 or PD-L1 antibodies. Nivolumab or other PD1/PD-L1 inhibitors are FDA-approved for the treatment of melanoma, non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), Merkel cell cancer, bladder cancer, renal cell carcinoma (RCC), gastric cancer, hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), cervical cancer, head and neck cancer, Hodgkin lymphoma (HL), metastatic small cell lung cancer (SCLC), and any solid tumor with microsatellite instability (MSI)-high status confirmed. Patients with HL are eligible but must follow standard response criteria. Additional tumor types may be eligible on a case by case basis upon discussion with principal investigator (PI)
The effects of nivolumab on the developing human fetus are unknown. For this reason, women of (WOCBP) and men must agree to use adequate (hormonal or barrier method of birth control; abstinence) prior to study entry and for the duration of study participation. WOCBP receiving nivolumab will be instructed to adhere to contraception for a period of 5 months after the last dose of product. Men receiving nivolumab and who are sexually active with WOCBP will be instructed to adhere to contraception for a period of 7 months after the last dose of investigational product
Exclusion Criteria:
Patients who have had chemotherapy or radiotherapy within 2 weeks (6 weeks for nitrosoureas or mitomycin C) prior to entering the study or those who have not recovered from adverse events (AEs) due to agents administered more than 4 weeks earlier have not resolved or stabilized. Palliative (limited-field) radiation therapy (RT) is permitted (2 week washout from start of treatment), if all of the following criteria are met:
Underlined terms in the criteria open these too. Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
The diagnosis was confirmed by looking at a sample under a microscope: tissue from a biopsy or surgery (histology), or cells from a fluid or needle sample (cytology).
Your pathology report is the document that shows this.
Malignancy means cancer. Criteria about another or earlier malignancy ask whether you have had a different cancer, usually within a set number of years.
Some are commonly allowed, such as treated skin cancers other than melanoma and early cancers removed completely — check the exceptions this study lists.
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 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.
Neoadjuvant treatment is given before the main treatment (usually surgery), often to shrink a tumour. Adjuvant treatment is given after it, to lower the chance of the cancer coming back.
A planned gap after a treatment, so that its effects can lessen before the study treatment or a study assessment. Ask the study team and the doctor who prescribed it before changing any medicine.
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.
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.
A 0–100 scale of how well someone can carry out everyday activities. 100 is no complaints and no signs of illness; 70 is able to look after yourself but not to work or keep up normal activity; 50 is needing considerable help and frequent medical care.
Studies often ask for 60 or 70 and above. Your doctor gives the score.
The study doctor’s estimate of how long someone is likely to live. Criteria use it so that people can stay in the study long enough for it to answer its question.
The number of neutrophils, white blood cells that help fight infection, in a given amount of blood. Too few raises the risk of infection.
It is a count, not a percentage of the white cells. Limits are written in units that mean the same: ≥ 1.5 × 10⁹/L is ≥ 1,500 per mm³ (µL). Each lab has its own reference range.
Blood cells that help blood clot. Too few raises the risk of bleeding and bruising. A usual adult range is about 150–400 × 10⁹/L (150,000–400,000 per µL); each lab has its own reference range.
A yellow substance made when red blood cells are broken down, which the liver clears. A high level can mean a problem with the liver or the bile ducts.
Criteria often allow more for people with Gilbert’s syndrome, a harmless inherited condition that raises bilirubin.
The top of the normal range for a blood test, as set by the laboratory that runs it. Each lab prints its own range next to your result.
“≤ 2.5 × ULN” means the result can be up to two and a half times that top value.
Two enzymes measured in a routine blood test of the liver. Higher levels can mean the liver is under strain or damaged. SGPT and SGOT are older names for ALT and AST.
Criteria usually give a limit as a multiple of the upper limit of normal (ULN), often higher when cancer has spread to the liver.
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.
GFR (glomerular filtration rate) is how much blood the kidneys filter each minute. It is usually estimated from a blood test — eGFR, by formulas such as CKD-EPI or MDRD — and some studies ask for it to be measured directly instead. Usually given in mL/min/1.73 m².
Check the method, the units and the minimum the study states. A value of 90 or above is in the normal-or-high range, but kidney damage can show in other tests too.
How quickly the kidneys clear creatinine, a waste product, from the blood. A study may estimate it from a blood test with age, weight and sex (often by the Cockcroft–Gault formula), or measure it using blood and urine collected over a set time. Given in mL/min; higher is better.
The human immunodeficiency virus, which weakens the immune system.
Many studies now accept people whose HIV is controlled on treatment, judged by the viral load and the CD4 count. Check the limits this study sets.
Hepatitis B is a virus that infects the liver. These are separate tests: HBsAg positive usually means a current infection (a recent vaccination can briefly cause it too); total anti-HBc (HBcAb) positive means an infection now or in the past; HBV DNA measures how much virus is in the blood.
Some studies accept a past infection if HBV DNA is undetectable, sometimes with antiviral medicine during the study. Check what this study allows.
Hepatitis C is a virus that infects the liver. An HCV antibody test can stay positive after an infection has cleared (and is occasionally positive without one); an HCV RNA test shows whether the virus is there now.
After treatment, hepatitis C counts as cured when HCV RNA is still undetectable 12 weeks or more after the treatment ended. Studies often accept people cured this way.
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.
Cancer that has spread to the leptomeninges, the thin layers covering the brain and spinal cord, and the fluid between them. It is not the same as brain metastases.
Criteria often treat it separately, and many studies leave it out even where treated brain metastases are allowed.
Able to become pregnant: from the first period until menopause, unless permanently unable to through surgery (removal of the womb, or of both ovaries or both fallopian tubes).
Criteria for people of childbearing potential usually ask for a negative pregnancy test and for contraception during the study and for a time after it.
Ways of preventing pregnancy. “Highly effective” methods fail less than 1% of the time a year when used correctly — for example an IUD or an implant.
Criteria usually say which methods count and how long to keep using them after the last dose, sometimes for male participants too. Some studies accept a partner’s vasectomy if it was confirmed successful and that person is the participant’s only sexual partner.
A drug or device being studied in a clinical trial.
It may be new, or already approved and being studied for another use, dose or form. Criteria often leave out people who took part in another study of one within a recent period, commonly 30 days or five half-lives.
Periods have stopped for good: usually no period for 12 months in a row without another medical reason, sometimes confirmed by a blood test (FSH).
Before you join, the study team explains what taking part involves — its purpose, what happens, the risks and possible benefits — and answers your questions, so you can decide freely. Consent is usually recorded on a form (the informed consent form, ICF) signed by you or, where the law allows, by someone legally authorised to decide for you.
You can keep asking questions during the study, you are told of new information that matters, and you can choose to leave at any time.
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.
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.
A weakened immune system. It can come from an illness, such as HIV or some blood cancers, or from medicines that turn the immune system down, for example after an organ transplant or for an autoimmune disease; steroids at higher doses count.
Read whether the line is about a condition or about medicines, and which medicines and doses it means.
A reason a treatment, test or procedure should not be given to a particular person, such as an allergy, another illness or a medicine they take.
Histologically or cytologically confirmed
The diagnosis was confirmed by looking at a sample under a microscope: tissue from a biopsy or surgery (histology), or cells from a fluid or needle sample (cytology).
Your pathology report is the document that shows this.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Cancer (malignancy)
Malignancy means cancer. Criteria about another or earlier malignancy ask whether you have had a different cancer, usually within a set number of years.
Some are commonly allowed, such as treated skin cancers other than melanoma and early cancers removed completely — check the exceptions this study lists.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Metastases
Cancer that has spread from where it began to other parts of the body. “Metastatic” cancer is cancer that has spread this way.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Adjuvant and neoadjuvant
Neoadjuvant treatment is given before the main treatment (usually surgery), often to shrink a tumour. Adjuvant treatment is given after it, to lower the chance of the cancer coming back.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Washout period
A planned gap after a treatment, so that its effects can lessen before the study treatment or a study assessment. Ask the study team and the doctor who prescribed it before changing any medicine.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Karnofsky performance status (KPS)
A 0–100 scale of how well someone can carry out everyday activities. 100 is no complaints and no signs of illness; 70 is able to look after yourself but not to work or keep up normal activity; 50 is needing considerable help and frequent medical care.
Studies often ask for 60 or 70 and above. Your doctor gives the score.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Life expectancy
The study doctor’s estimate of how long someone is likely to live. Criteria use it so that people can stay in the study long enough for it to answer its question.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Absolute neutrophil count (ANC)
The number of neutrophils, white blood cells that help fight infection, in a given amount of blood. Too few raises the risk of infection.
It is a count, not a percentage of the white cells. Limits are written in units that mean the same: ≥ 1.5 × 10⁹/L is ≥ 1,500 per mm³ (µL). Each lab has its own reference range.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Platelets
Blood cells that help blood clot. Too few raises the risk of bleeding and bruising. A usual adult range is about 150–400 × 10⁹/L (150,000–400,000 per µL); each lab has its own reference range.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Bilirubin
A yellow substance made when red blood cells are broken down, which the liver clears. A high level can mean a problem with the liver or the bile ducts.
Criteria often allow more for people with Gilbert’s syndrome, a harmless inherited condition that raises bilirubin.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
ULN (upper limit of normal)
The top of the normal range for a blood test, as set by the laboratory that runs it. Each lab prints its own range next to your result.
“≤ 2.5 × ULN” means the result can be up to two and a half times that top value.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
ALT and AST (liver enzymes)
Two enzymes measured in a routine blood test of the liver. Higher levels can mean the liver is under strain or damaged. SGPT and SGOT are older names for ALT and AST.
Criteria usually give a limit as a multiple of the upper limit of normal (ULN), often higher when cancer has spread to the liver.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
GFR and eGFR (kidney filtering)
GFR (glomerular filtration rate) is how much blood the kidneys filter each minute. It is usually estimated from a blood test — eGFR, by formulas such as CKD-EPI or MDRD — and some studies ask for it to be measured directly instead. Usually given in mL/min/1.73 m².
Check the method, the units and the minimum the study states. A value of 90 or above is in the normal-or-high range, but kidney damage can show in other tests too.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Creatinine clearance (CrCl)
How quickly the kidneys clear creatinine, a waste product, from the blood. A study may estimate it from a blood test with age, weight and sex (often by the Cockcroft–Gault formula), or measure it using blood and urine collected over a set time. Given in mL/min; higher is better.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
HIV
The human immunodeficiency virus, which weakens the immune system.
Many studies now accept people whose HIV is controlled on treatment, judged by the viral load and the CD4 count. Check the limits this study sets.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Hepatitis B tests
Hepatitis B is a virus that infects the liver. These are separate tests: HBsAg positive usually means a current infection (a recent vaccination can briefly cause it too); total anti-HBc (HBcAb) positive means an infection now or in the past; HBV DNA measures how much virus is in the blood.
Some studies accept a past infection if HBV DNA is undetectable, sometimes with antiviral medicine during the study. Check what this study allows.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Hepatitis C tests
Hepatitis C is a virus that infects the liver. An HCV antibody test can stay positive after an infection has cleared (and is occasionally positive without one); an HCV RNA test shows whether the virus is there now.
After treatment, hepatitis C counts as cured when HCV RNA is still undetectable 12 weeks or more after the treatment ended. Studies often accept people cured this way.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Leptomeningeal disease
Cancer that has spread to the leptomeninges, the thin layers covering the brain and spinal cord, and the fluid between them. It is not the same as brain metastases.
Criteria often treat it separately, and many studies leave it out even where treated brain metastases are allowed.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Childbearing potential
Able to become pregnant: from the first period until menopause, unless permanently unable to through surgery (removal of the womb, or of both ovaries or both fallopian tubes).
Criteria for people of childbearing potential usually ask for a negative pregnancy test and for contraception during the study and for a time after it.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Contraception
Ways of preventing pregnancy. “Highly effective” methods fail less than 1% of the time a year when used correctly — for example an IUD or an implant.
Criteria usually say which methods count and how long to keep using them after the last dose, sometimes for male participants too. Some studies accept a partner’s vasectomy if it was confirmed successful and that person is the participant’s only sexual partner.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Investigational drug or device
A drug or device being studied in a clinical trial.
It may be new, or already approved and being studied for another use, dose or form. Criteria often leave out people who took part in another study of one within a recent period, commonly 30 days or five half-lives.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Postmenopausal
Periods have stopped for good: usually no period for 12 months in a row without another medical reason, sometimes confirmed by a blood test (FSH).
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Informed consent
Before you join, the study team explains what taking part involves — its purpose, what happens, the risks and possible benefits — and answers your questions, so you can decide freely. Consent is usually recorded on a form (the informed consent form, ICF) signed by you or, where the law allows, by someone legally authorised to decide for you.
You can keep asking questions during the study, you are told of new information that matters, and you can choose to leave at any time.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
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.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Immunosuppression
A weakened immune system. It can come from an illness, such as HIV or some blood cancers, or from medicines that turn the immune system down, for example after an organ transplant or for an autoimmune disease; steroids at higher doses count.
Read whether the line is about a condition or about medicines, and which medicines and doses it means.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Contraindication
A reason a treatment, test or procedure should not be given to a particular person, such as an allergy, another illness or a medicine they take.
Explained by clinicaltrials.gg, not part of the registry record. The study team decides who can take part.
Patients may receive single agent nivolumab IV over 30 minutes every 4 weeks for up to 2 years for patients with metastatic indications, for up to 1 year for adjuvant indications or for up to 3 months after surgery for neoadjuvant indications in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients also undergo collection of blood, CSF, tissue, stool, and urine samples throughout the trial.
Procedure: Biospecimen Collection · Biological: Nivolumab
Patients with unresectable or metastatic melanoma receive nivolumab IV over 30 minutes every 2 or 4 weeks in combination with ipilimumab IV every 3 weeks for up to 4 doses of combination therapy in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Treatment with nivolumab may continue every 4 weeks in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients also undergo collection of blood, CSF, tissue, stool, and urine samples throughout the trial.
Procedure: Biospecimen Collection · Biological: Ipilimumab · Biological: Nivolumab
Patients receiving neoadjuvant treatment of resectable NSCLC receive nivolumab IV over 30 minutes in combination with platinum doublet therapy every 3 weeks for up to 3 cycles in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients also undergo collection of blood, CSF, tissue, stool, and urine samples throughout the trial.
Procedure: Biospecimen Collection · Biological: Nivolumab · Drug: Platinum Doublet
Patients with metastatic PD-L1 positive NSCLC receive nivolumab IV over 30 minutes every 3 weeks and ipilimumab IV every 6 weeks for up to 2 years in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients also undergo collection of blood, CSF, tissue, stool, and urine samples throughout the trial.
Procedure: Biospecimen Collection · Biological: Ipilimumab · Biological: Nivolumab
Patients with HCC receive nivolumab IV over 30 minutes in combination with ipilimumab IV every 3 weeks for up to 4 doses of combination therapy. Patients may continue to receive single agent nivolumab every 2 or 4 weeks in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients also undergo collection of blood, CSF, tissue, stool, and urine samples throughout the trial.
Procedure: Biospecimen Collection · Biological: Ipilimumab · Biological: Nivolumab
Patients with metastatic or recurrent NSCLC receive nivolumab IV over 30 minutes every 3 weeks, ipilimumab IV every 6 weeks and platinum doublet therapy every 3 weeks for up to 2 cycles of combination therapy. Treatment with nivolumab and ipilimumab repeats for up to 2 years in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients also undergo collection of blood, CSF, tissue, stool, and urine samples throughout the trial.
Procedure: Biospecimen Collection · Biological: Ipilimumab · Biological: Nivolumab · Drug: Platinum Doublet
Patients with malignant pleural mesothelioma receive nivolumab IV over 30 minutes every 3 weeks and ipilimumab IV every 6 weeks for up to 2 years in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients also undergo collection of blood, CSF, tissue, stool, and urine samples throughout the trial.
Procedure: Biospecimen Collection · Biological: Ipilimumab · Biological: Nivolumab
Patients with advanced RCC receive nivolumab IV over 30 minutes in combination with ipilimumab IV every 3 weeks for up to 4 doses of combination therapy in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients may continue to receive single agent nivolumab every 2 or 4 weeks in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients may optionally receive nivolumab IV every 2 or 4 weeks in combination with cabozantinib PO QD for up to 2 years of combination therapy in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Treatment with single agent cabozantinib may continue in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients also undergo collection of blood, CSF, tissue, stool, and urine samples throughout the trial.
Procedure: Biospecimen Collection · Drug: Cabozantinib · Biological: Ipilimumab · Biological: Nivolumab
Patients with MSI-H or dMMR metastatic colorectal cancer receive nivolumab IV over 30 minutes every 2 or 4 weeks in combination with ipilimumab IV every 3 weeks for up to 4 doses of combination therapy in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients may continue to receive single agent nivolumab every 2 or 4 weeks in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients also undergo collection of blood, CSF, tissue, stool, and urine samples throughout the trial.
Procedure: Biospecimen Collection · Biological: Ipilimumab · Biological: Nivolumab
Patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma receive nivolumab IV over 30 minutes every 2 or 4 weeks in combination with fluoropyrimidine and platinum-containing chemotherapy for up to 2 years in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity OR receive nivolumab IV every 2 or 3 weeks in combination with ipilimumab IV every 6 weeks for up to 2 years in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients may then continue receiving fluoropyrimidine and platinum-containing chemotherapy in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients also undergo collection of blood, CSF, tissue, stool, and urine samples throughout the trial.
Procedure: Biospecimen Collection · Drug: Fluoropyrimidine · Biological: Ipilimumab · Biological: Nivolumab · Drug: Platinum Compound
Patients with gastric cancer, gastroesophageal junction cancer, and esophageal adenocarcinoma receive nivolumab IV over 30 minutes in combination with fluoropyrimidine and platinum-containing chemotherapy every 2 or 3 weeks for up to 2 years in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. Patients also undergo collection of blood, CSF, tissue, stool, and urine samples throughout the trial.
Procedure: Biospecimen Collection · Drug: Fluoropyrimidine · Biological: Nivolumab · Drug: Platinum Compound
Undergo collection of blood, CSF, tissue, stool and urine samples
Also known as: Biological Sample Collection, Biospecimen Collected, Sample Collection, Specimen Collection
Given PO
Given fluoropyrimidine
Given IV
Also known as: Anti-Cytotoxic T-Lymphocyte-Associated Antigen-4 Monoclonal Antibody, BMS 734016, BMS-734016, BMS734016, Ipilimumab Biosimilar CS1002, MDX 010, MDX-010, MDX-CTLA4, MDX010, Yervoy
Given IV
Also known as: ABP 206, BCD-263, BMS 936558, BMS-936558, BMS936558, CMAB819, MDX 1106, MDX-1106, MDX1106, NIVO, Nivolumab Biosimilar ABP 206, Nivolumab Biosimilar BCD-263, Nivolumab Biosimilar CMAB819, ONO 4538, ONO-4538, ONO4538, Opdivo
Given platinum containing chemotherapy
Also known as: Platinum Agents, Platinum-Based Chemotherapeutic Agent
Given platinum doublet
Also known as: Platinum Doublets, Platinum-based Chemotherapy Doublet, Platinum-based Chemotherapy Doublets, Platinum-based Double Chemotherapy Combination, Platinum-based Doublet, Platinum-based Doublets
Incidence of adverse events
Will be reported overall and by severity, and dose limiting toxicities will be summarized for all patients and by disease severity cohort.
Time frame: Up to 100 days after completion of study treatment
Change in disease assessments
Will be summarized at each time point for each disease severity cohort.
Time frame: Baseline up to 100 days after completion of study treatment
Overall response rate
Will be computed along with its associated exact 95% confidence interval for all patients and by disease severity cohort.
Time frame: Up to 5 years after completion of study treatment
Changes in serum chemokines and circulating immune cells over time
Will be summarized and assessed using generalized linear mixed modeling.
Time frame: Baseline up to 100 days after completion of study treatment
Gene expression in normal tissues
Will be compared with gene expression in malignant tissues based on two-sample t-test and Wilcoxon rank sum test. False discovery rate, if appropriate, will be used to control for multiple testing.
Time frame: Up to 100 days after completion of study treatment
Clinical measures of interest
The association between demographic and clinical measures of interest with overall response rate and toxicity will be evaluated using logistic regression modeling to identify potential predictors of outcomes.
Time frame: Up to 100 days after completion of study treatment
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Started Jul 2019 (actual). Primary completion is estimated for Mar 2028, 104 months after the start.
Of 94 phase 1 interventional studies under Autoimmune Diseases, half reached primary completion within 23 months of starting (the median), counting those still running; a quarter within 9 and three quarters within 36. This study's planned 104 months is above that.
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Studies of the drugs tested here: Ipilimumab · Nivolumab
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