CA184-161: A phase I/II trial of vemurafenib and ipilimumab in patients with BRAF V600 mutation-positive metastatic melanoma.

TPS8603 Background: Ipilimumab (ipi) is a fully human monoclonal antibody that blocks cytotoxic T-lymphocyte antigen-4 (CTLA-4) to augment antitumor immune responses. Ipi significantly improved overall survival (OS) in two separate phase III trials of metastatic melanoma (MM): (1) at 3 mg/kg as monotherapy in previously treated patients and (2) at 10 mg/kg combined with dacarbazine in previously untreated patients. The most common drug-related adverse events with ipi were immune-related, and were generally reversible using treatment guidelines. Vemurafenib (vem) is a potent inhibitor of BRAF V600E-mutated kinase, which occurs in ~50% of MM. In clinical studies, vem produced objective response rates of ~50% with a significant improvement in the rate of OS in patients with previously untreated BRAF V600-positive MM. The purpose of this phase I/II study is to determine the safety and feasibility of ipi plus vem in patients with BRAF V600-positive MM, and to evaluate the efficacy of the combination in compari...