Conditions: Squamous Cell Non-small Cell Lung Cancer
Allocation: RANDOMIZED | Intervention model: PARALLEL
Enrollment: 272
Healthy volunteers: no

Brief summary:
The purpose of the study is to compare the overall survival of BMS-936558 as compared with Docetaxel in subjects with squamous cell non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC), after failure of prior platinum-based chemotherapy.

Detailed description:

Arms:
arm 1: Nivolumab 3 mg/kg solution intravenously (IV) every 2 weeks until documented disease progression, discontinuation due to toxicity, withdrawal of consent or the study ends. Eligible patients may receive nivolumab at 480mg every 4 weeks until documented disease progression, discontinuation, withdrawal of consent or the study ends. arm 2: Docetaxel 75 mg/m\^2 concentrate for solution for intravenous infusion every 3 weeks until documented disease progression, discontinuation due to toxicity, withdrawal of consent or the study ends. Eligible patients may receive nivolumab at 480mg every 4 weeks until documented disease progression, discontinuation, withdrawal of consent or the study ends.

Interventions: intervention 1: Nivolumab intervention 2: Docetaxel
Intervention descriptions: intervention 1: None intervention 2: None

Protocol document: