Please select the eligibility criteria that correspond to the clinical trial below.
Title: A Double-Blind, Randomized, Placebo-Controlled Phase III Trial of Carboplatin, Paclitaxel and Sorafenib Versus Carboplatin, Paclitaxel and Placebo in Patients With Unresectable Locally Advanced or Stage IV Melanoma
Brief Summary: This randomized phase III trial studies carboplatin, paclitaxel, and sorafenib tosylate to see how well they work compared to carboplatin and paclitaxel in treating patients with stage III or stage IV melanoma that cannot be removed by surgery. Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as carboplatin and paclitaxel, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells or by stopping them from dividing. Sorafenib tosylate may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking some of the enzymes needed for cell growth and by blocking blood flow to the tumor. It is not yet known whether giving carboplatin and paclitaxel together with sorafenib tosylate is more effective than carboplatin and paclitaxel in treating melanoma.


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A: Inclusion Criteria:

* Histological or cytological confirmed melanoma that is metastatic or unresectable; patients must have a history of cutaneous, mucosal or unknown primary site
* Patients who have received prior systemic cytotoxic chemotherapy for treatment of melanoma are ineligible; the following groups are eligible with regard to prior systemic therapy either in the adjuvant or metastatic disease setting:

  * No prior therapy
  * Immunotherapy consisting of interferon, interleukin-2, granulocyte macrophage colony-stimulating factor (GM-CSF) or vaccine
  * One prior investigational therapy (cannot be chemotherapy or an inhibitor of rat sarcoma \[Ras\], serine/threonine kinase \[Raf\], or mitogen-activated protein kinase kinase \[MEK\])

    * NOTE: Chemotherapy given via isolated limb perfusion is allowed
* Prior radiation therapy is allowed; however, if radiation has been administered to a lesion, there must be radiographic evidence of progression of that lesion in order for that lesion to constitute measurable disease or to be included in the measured target lesions
* All sites of disease must be evaluated within 4 weeks of registration; patients must have measurable disease as defined by Response Evaluation Criteria in Solid Tumors (RECIST)
* Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0 or 1
* White blood count \>= 3,000/mm\^3
* Absolute granulocyte count \>= 1,500/mm\^3
* Platelet count \>= 100,000/mm\^3
* Serum creatinine =\< 2.0 x upper limit of normal (ULN) or serum creatinine clearance (CrCl) \>= 40 ml/min (neither drug is cleared by the kidney)
* Total bilirubin =\< 1.5 x ULN (\< 3.0 x ULN in the presence of Gilbert's disease)
* Aspartate aminotransferase (AST)/alanine aminotransferase (ALT) =\< 2.5 x ULN (=\< 5.0 ULN in the presence of liver metastases)
* International normalized ratio (INR) =\< 1.5 and a partial thromboplastin time (PTT) within normal limits (patients who are on therapeutic anticoagulation with warfarin should have documentation of a normal prothrombin time \[PT\]/PTT prior to initiating that therapy)
* Patients must not have ocular melanoma
* Patients must have discontinued immunotherapy or radiation therapy at least 4 weeks prior to initiation of treatment and recovered from adverse events due to those agents
* Patients must not receive any other investigational agents during the period on study or the four weeks prior to initiation of treatment
* Patients must not have a history or clinical evidence of brain metastasis; patients must be evaluated with a head magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) within 4 weeks prior to enrollment
* Patients must not have other current malignancies, other than basal cell skin cancer, squamous cell skin cancer, in situ cervical cancer, ductal or lobular carcinoma in situ of the breast; patients with other malignancies are eligible if they have been continuously disease-free for \>= 5 years prior to the time of randomization
* Patients must not have any evidence of bleeding diathesis
* Patients must not have a serious intercurrent illness including, but not limited to, ongoing or active infection requiring parenteral antibiotics, clinically significant cardiovascular disease (e.g. uncontrolled hypertension, myocardial infarction, unstable angina), New York Heart Association grade II or greater congestive heart failure, serious cardiac arrhythmia requiring medication, or grade II or greater peripheral vascular disease within 1 year prior to study entry, or psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with study requirements
* Patients must not be taking cytochrome P450 enzyme-inducing antiepileptic drugs (phenytoin, carbamazepine or phenobarbital), rifampin or St. John's Wort
* Women must not be pregnant or breast-feeding
* All females of childbearing potential must have a blood test or urine study within 4 weeks prior to registration to rule out pregnancy
* Women of child-bearing potential and men must agree to use adequate contraception (hormonal or barrier method of birth control; abstinence) prior to study entry and for the duration of study participation; should a woman become pregnant while participating in this study, she should inform her treating physician immediately; if a man impregnates a woman while participating in this study, he should inform his treating physician immediately as well
* Human immunodeficiency virus (HIV)-positive patients are excluded from the study
B: For more information regarding BMS clinical trial participation, please visit www.BMSStudyConnect.com

Inclusion Criteria:

* Histologically confirmed stage III (unresectable) or stage IV melanoma
* Treatment naïve patients
* Measurable disease by computed tomography (CT) or Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) per RECIST 1.1 criteria
* Tumor tissue from an unresectable or metastatic site of disease for biomarker analyses
* Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status (PS) 0 or 1

Exclusion Criteria:

* Active brain metastases or leptomeningeal metastases
* Ocular melanoma
* Subjects with active, known or suspected autoimmune disease
* Subjects with a condition requiring systemic treatment with either corticosteroids (\>10 mg daily prednisone equivalents) or other immunosuppressive medications within 14 days of treatment
* Prior treatment with an anti-Programmed Death receptor-1 (PD-1), anti-Programmed Death-1 ligand-1 (PD-L1), anti-PD-L2, or anti-cytotoxic T lymphocyte associated antigen-4 (anti-CTLA-4) antibody
C: Inclusion Criteria:

1. Histologically documented diagnosis of melanoma metastases.
2. Stage IIIB/IIIC (N2b, N2c and N3) or stage IV (M1a) melanoma patients with measurable and potentially resectable metastases without clinical and radiological evidence of other distant metastases.
3. An Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0-1.
4. Age 18 or older.
5. Adequate organ function defined as follows: a.) Absolute granulocytes greater than or equal to 1,000/mm\^3 and Platelets greater than or equal to 100,000/mm\^3, b.) Serum bilirubin and serum creatinine of less than or equal to 1.5 times upper limit of laboratory normal. If serum creatinine is greater than 1.5 times upper limit of laboratory normal, the urine creatinine clearance must be greater than 60 ml/min., c.) serum glutamate oxaloacetate transaminase (SGOT) (AST), serum glutamate pyruvate transaminase (SGPT) (ALT) and alkaline phosphatase less than or equal to 3 times upper limit of laboratory normal.
6. Patients have not had any previous systemic chemotherapy for metastatic melanoma. Prior biologic therapy, targeted therapy or immunotherapy are allowable, but must be at least 2 weeks since prior therapy before starting study drugs. No other concurrent chemotherapy, immunotherapy, or radiotherapy.
7. Prior radiation therapy used to enhance local regional control is permitted, but must be at least 2 weeks since prior therapy before starting study drugs. In addition, the patient must have unirradiated metastatic sites for response evaluation and has fully recovered from its toxicity. Lesions within the prior field of radiation may only be used as indicator lesions if there has been recent evidence of disease progression after .
8. Ability to understand and sign an informed consent form, indicating awareness of the investigational nature of this study.

Exclusion Criteria:

1. Significant cardiac or pulmonary dysfunction, such as a history of severe cardiovascular disease, myocardial infarction within 6 months of the start of treatment, unstable angina, Class III or Class IV congestive heart failure, ventricular arrhythmia, or any uncontrolled arrhythmia.
2. Current significant psychiatric illness.
3. Serious infection requiring intravenous antibiotics, or any non-malignant medical illnesses that are uncontrolled or whose control may be jeopardized by complications of this therapy.
4. Frequent vomiting or any medical condition (e.g. partial bowel obstruction) that could interfere with oral medication intake.
5. Autoimmune or immunosuppressive disorders (e.g. HIV or AIDS-related illness).
6. Patients who require therapy with systemic corticosteroids.
7. No evidence of active secondary malignancy that requires chemotherapy within the past 2 years (excluding non-melanoma skin cancer, and/or all carcinoma in-situ)
8. Pregnant or lactating women are ineligible. Women of childbearing potential must have a negative urine pregnancy test within a week of initiation of therapy. All patients must agree to use medically approved contraceptive measures to prevent pregnancy during treatment.
9. Any other medical condition or reason that, in the principal investigator's opinion, makes the patient unsuitable to participate in a clinical trial.
D: Key inclusion criteria

* Histologically confirmed malignant melanoma
* At least 1 measurable index brain metastasis \>0.5 cm and no larger than 3 cm in diameter that had not been previously irradiated, and/or 2 measurable lesions \>0.3 cm visible on contrast magnetic resonance
* Index brain lesion must have resolved consequences of prior therapy that could have confounded attribution of tumor response including edema and hemorrhage
* Participants in ipilimumab monotherapy arm (including the first 21 who were enrolled in Stage 1) were to be free of neurologic symptoms related to metastatic brain lesions and must not have required or received systemic corticosteroid therapy in the 10 days prior to beginning ipilimumab therapy
* Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group performance status of 0 or 1
* Required values for initial laboratory tests:

  * White blood cell count ≥2000/μL
  * Absolute neutrophil count ≥1000/μL
  * Platelets ≥100\*10\^3/μL
  * Hemoglobin level ≥9 g/dL (may have been transfused)
  * Aspartate aminotransferase/alanine aminotransferase (AST/ALT) level ≤2.5\*ULN for participants without liver metastasis
  * AST/ALT level ≤5\*ULN for those with liver metastasis
  * Bilirubin level ≤2\*ULN (except participants with Gilbert's Syndrome, who must have had a total bilirubin level less than 3.0 mg/dL)
* Age 16 years and older
* Males and females
* Women of childbearing potential (WOBP) must be using an adequate method of contraception to avoid pregnancy throughout the study (and for up to 26 weeks after the last dose of investigational product) in such a manner that the risk of pregnancy is minimized. WOCBP include any female who has experienced menarche and who has not undergone successful surgical sterilization (hysterectomy, bilateral tubal ligation, or bilateral oophorectomy) or is not postmenopausal.

Key exclusion criteria

* History of carcinomatous meningitis, with prior stereotactic or highly conformal radiotherapy and/or whole brain irradiation within 14 days before the first dose of ipilimumab, and documented history of autoimmune disease
* Prior stereotactic or highly conformal radiotherapy and/or whole brain irradiation within 14 days prior to start of ipilimumab dosing for this study. Note the stereotactic radiotherapy field must not have included the brain index lesion or the lesion must have been detected and confirmed to be active and progressing after receiving whole brain irradiation.

Answer: A