Conditions: Melanoma (Skin)
Keywords: Stage IV Skin Melanoma recurrent melanoma
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 149
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
This randomized phase II trial is studying how well carboplatin, paclitaxel, and bevacizumab work when given with or without everolimus in treating patients with malignant melanoma that has spread from where it started to other places in the body. 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. Monoclonal antibodies, such as bevacizumab, may block the ability of tumor cells to grow and spread. Everolimus 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 combination chemotherapy given together with bevacizumab is more effective with or without everolimus in treating patients with metastatic melanoma.

Detailed description:
OBJECTIVES:

Primary

* To assess whether there is sufficient promise of an impact of the addition of everolimus to the combination of carboplatin, paclitaxel, and bevacizumab on progression-free survival that it would be recommended for further testing in patients with metastatic malignant melanoma.

Secondary

* To estimate the confirmed tumor response rate of each of the treatment regimens.
* To estimate the distribution of overall survival (OS) time for each of the treatment regimens.
* To assess the impact on the safety profile of the addition of everolimus to the combination of carboplatin, paclitaxel, and bevacizumab.

OUTLINE: This is a multicenter study. Patients are stratified according to elevated LDH (above upper limit of normal) at baseline (yes vs no), location of metastatic disease (M1a \[skin, subcutaneous tissue, or lymph node only\] vs M1b \[lung\] vs M1c \[other visceral sites\]) and prior chemotherapy for metastatic disease (yes vs no). Patients are randomized to 1 of 2 treatment arms.

OUTLINE: Patients are randomized to 1 of 2 treatment arms.

ARM I: Patients receive bevacizumab intravenously (IV) over 30-90 minutes on days 1 and 15, paclitaxel IV over 60 minutes on days 1, 8, and 15, and carboplatin IV over 30 minutes on day 1. Courses repeat every 28 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.

ARM II: Patients receive bevacizumab, paclitaxel, and carboplatin as in Arm I. Patients also receive everolimus orally (PO) once daily (QD) 3 times weekly. Courses repeat every 28 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.

After completion of study treatment, patients are followed up every 3-6 months for up to 5 years.

Arms:
arm 1: Patients receive bevacizumab IV over 30-90 minutes on days 1 and 15, paclitaxel IV over 60 minutes on days 1, 8, and 15, and carboplatin IV over 30 minutes on day 1. Courses repeat every 28 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity. arm 2: Patients receive bevacizumab, paclitaxel, and carboplatin as in Arm I. Patients also receive everolimus PO QD on 3 days a week. Courses repeat every 28 days in the absence of disease progression or unacceptable toxicity.

Interventions: intervention 1: bevacizumab intervention 2: carboplatin intervention 3: everolimus intervention 4: paclitaxel
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: Given IV intervention 2: Given IV intervention 3: Given orally intervention 4: Given IV

Protocol document: