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Updated June 2026 · ClinicalTrials.gov

RECRUITINGPhase 4INTERVENTIONAL

ctDNA-guided Addition of Ipilimumab to Patients Receiving Nivolumab and Relatlimab

A Multi-center Trial Evaluating the ctDNA-guided Addition of Ipilimumab to Patients Receiving Nivolumab and Relatlimab for Advanced Melanoma

ctDNA-guided Addition of Ipilimumab to Patients Receiving Nivolumab and Relatlimab (NCT07504796) is a Phase 4 interventional studying Metastatic Melanoma and Advanced Melanoma, sponsored by NYU Langone Health. RECRUITING as of the most recent ClinicalTrials.gov update. Talk to your doctor before contacting the trial site.

Important: This information is not medical advice. Talk to your doctor about whether a clinical trial is right for you.

About This Trial

The purpose of this study is to investigate the use of ctDNA measurements to guide first-lien therapy choice for patients with advanced or metastatic melanoma. Primary endpoints include progression-free survival. Secondary study endpoints include objective response rate and incidence and severity of immune-related adverse events.

What Stage of Research Is This?

Phase 4 studies happen after a treatment has been approved by the FDA. They monitor long-term safety, real-world effectiveness, and any rare side effects that only emerge in larger populations over longer periods. Phase 4 results sometimes lead to label changes, additional warnings, or — rarely — withdrawal of approval.

This trial is currently recruiting participants. The sponsor has registered the study with ClinicalTrials.gov as actively enrolling, which means new applicants who meet the eligibility criteria can be considered for screening. Trial status can change between updates — confirm current recruiting status with the study contact before traveling for a screening visit.

Target enrollment of 90 participants puts this in the typical range for a Phase 2-style efficacy study or a moderate Phase 3 trial in a focused Metastatic Melanoma subpopulation. At this scale, the study has enough statistical power to detect a clear treatment effect but is not the largest cohort in the field.

Who May Be Eligible (Plain English)

Who May Qualify: 1. Patient must be ≥ 18 years old. 2. Patients must have signed and dated an Institutional Review Board (IRB)/Independent Ethics Committee (IEC)-approved written willing to sign a consent form from (ICF) in accordance with regulatory and institutional guidelines. This must be obtained before the performance of any protocol-related procedures that are not part of normal patient care. 3. Patients must be willing and able to comply with scheduled visits, laboratory tests, and other requirements of the study. 4. Patient must have active advanced melanoma, defined as unresectable stage IIIB-IV by American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) 8th edition. Patients with mucosal melanoma defined as unresectable stage III or regional/distant metastatic disease are eligible. 5. Patient must have melanoma originating from cutaneous, acral-lentiginous, or mucosal primary sites. Patients with melanoma of unknown primary site are eligible. 6. Patient must have at least one lesion for tumors that can be measured on scans 1.1 guidelines (refer to section 8.1 for more information). 7. Patients must have specimen required for study procedures, including either archived tumor tissue or fresh tissue and whole blood available, at baseline to send to Natera as part of screening for Signatera testing to be completed. (refer to section 8.2 for more information) 8. Patient must be planned to initiate standard of care first-line therapy for metastatic disease ...See full criteria on ClinicalTrials.gov Always talk to your doctor about whether this trial is right for you.

These are translations of the protocol\'s inclusion and exclusion criteria, simplified for patients and caregivers. The original clinical text appears below. Eligibility is ultimately confirmed by the trial site\'s screening process — this summary is a starting point for a conversation with your doctor, not a final determination.

Original Eligibility Criteria

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Inclusion Criteria: 1. Patient must be ≥ 18 years old. 2. Patients must have signed and dated an Institutional Review Board (IRB)/Independent Ethics Committee (IEC)-approved written informed consent from (ICF) in accordance with regulatory and institutional guidelines. This must be obtained before the performance of any protocol-related procedures that are not part of normal patient care. 3. Patients must be willing and able to comply with scheduled visits, laboratory tests, and other requirements of the study. 4. Patient must have active advanced melanoma, defined as unresectable stage IIIB-IV by American Joint Committee on Cancer (AJCC) 8th edition. Patients with mucosal melanoma defined as unresectable stage III or regional/distant metastatic disease are eligible. 5. Patient must have melanoma originating from cutaneous, acral-lentiginous, or mucosal primary sites. Patients with melanoma of unknown primary site are eligible. 6. Patient must have at least one lesion for measurable disease per RECIST 1.1 guidelines (refer to section 8.1 for more information). 7. Patients must have specimen required for study procedures, including either archived tumor tissue or fresh tissue and whole blood available, at baseline to send to Natera as part of screening for Signatera testing to be completed. (refer to section 8.2 for more information) 8. Patient must be planned to initiate standard of care first-line therapy for metastatic disease 9. Patients must not have received prior anticancer treatment for metastatic disease (for example, but not limited to, systemic, local, radiation, radiopharmaceutical). Exceptions: Surgery for melanoma and/or post-resection brain radiotherapy (RT) if central nervous system (CNS) metastases and adjuvant RT for locoregional disease after resection. Prior treatment with the following therapies in the adjuvant setting: interferon (IFN)-alpha therapy, BRAF/MEK therapy (e.g. dabrafenib and trametinib), anti-PD-1 therapy (e.g. pembrolizumab or nivolumab), or anti-CTLA-4 therapy (e.g. ipilimumab) is allowed if therapy has been completed for 6 months (see criterion 10). 10. All patients must have their disease status documented by a complete physical examination and imaging studies within 4 weeks prior to the first dose of study drug. Imaging studies must include computerized tomography (CT) scan of chest, abdomen, pelvis, and all known sites of resected disease in the setting of Stage IIIB/C/D or Stage IV disease, and brain magnetic resonance imaging (\[MRI\]; brain CT is allowable if MRI is contraindicated). 11. The complete set of baseline radiographic images must be available before treatment initiation. Prior treatment with adjuvant IFN-alpha, adjuvant ipilimumab and/or nivolumab or pembrolizumab or BRAF/MEK therapy (e.g. dabrafenib and trametinib) are allowed if recurrence of disease occurred more than 6 months from the last dose of adjuvant therapy; that is, a patient must have recurred with unresectable disease at least 6 months or more after finishing adjuvant therapy; combination adjuvant therapies with nivolumab or pembrolizumab are also allowed (vaccines, bempegaldesleukin, relatlimab, etc.). 12. Patients must have detectable ctDNA at baseline. A blood sample will be collected during the screening phase in order to determine if patients are eligible based on presence of ctDNA. Patients are permitted to start treatment with nivolumab/relatlimab cycle 1 while awaiting results. 13. Patient must have an Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0-1. 14. Patients with prior or concurrent nonmelanoma malignancies whose natural history or treatment does not have the potential to interfere with the safety or efficacy assessment of the investigational regimen are eligible for this study. 15. Asymptomatic brain metastases are permitted. Patients who have received/will receive gamma knife radiotherapy or stereotactic body radiation therapy (SBRT) treated lesions are also eligible. Patients must be on \< 10 mg of prednisone or equivalent at the time of treatment. 16. All baseline laboratory requirements will be assessed and should be obtained within 14 days of C1D1. Screening laboratory values must meet the following criteria: * white blood cells (WBCs) ≥ 2000/μL * Neutrophils ≥ 1500/μL * Platelets ≥ 100 × 10³/μL * Hemoglobin ≥ 9.0 g/dL * Serum creatinine ≤ 1.5 × upper limit of normal (ULN) or creatinine clearance \> 40 mL/minute (using Cockcroft/Gault formula) * Aspartate Aminotransferase (AST) ≤ 1.5 × ULN * Alanine Aminotransferase (ALT) ≤ 1.5 × ULN * Total bilirubin ≤ 1.5 × ULN (except patients with Gilbert Syndrome who must have total bilirubin \< 3.0 mg/dL) * Coagulation : Prothrombin Time (PT), Partial Thromboplastin Time (PTT), International Normalized Ratio (INR) Exclusion Criteria: 1. Patients with carcinomatosis meningitis or a history of current ocular/uveal melanoma are excluded. 2. Patients with a history of myocarditis. 3. Patients with active, known, or suspected autoimmune disease requiring immunosuppression beyond 10 mg daily of prednisone. Patients with type I diabetes mellitus, residual hypothyroidism due to autoimmune thyroiditis only requiring hormone replacement, or skin disorders (such as vitiligo, psoriasis, or alopecia) not requiring systemic treatment are permitted to enroll. For any cases of uncertainty, it is recommended that the Principal Investigator be consulted prior to signing informed consent. 4. Patients with a condition requiring systemic treatment with either corticosteroids (\> 10 mg daily prednisone or equivalent) or other immunosuppressive medications within 14 days of C1D1. Inhaled or topical steroids are permitted in the absence of active autoimmune disease. 5. Patients must not be receiving concurrent anti-tumor therapies in addition to the standard of care anti-PD-1 regimens. Patients who are receiving bisphosphonates and RANKL inhibitors for management of bone metastases are eligible. 6. Any serious or uncontrolled medical disorder or active infection that, in the opinion of the Investigator, may increase the risk associated with or would otherwise affect study participation. 7. Known hypersensitivity to monoclonal antibodies 8. Pregnancy 9. Prior therapy for melanoma with the following exceptions which are allowed: 1) surgery for the melanoma lesion(s), 2) adjuvant RT after neurosurgical resection for CNS lesions or for resected locoregional disease, and 3) prior adjuvant therapy as long as concluded 6 months prior. 10. Any of the following laboratory abnormalities: * Absolute Neutrophil Count (ANC) \< 1,500/μL or WBC \< 2,000 μL * Platelet count \< 100,000/μL * Hematologic growth factors are not allowed at screening or during the first cycle of treatment * Hemoglobin \< 9 g/dL (\< 5.5 mmol/L; previous red blood cell (RBC) transfusion is permitted) * Creatinine \> 1.5 × ULN * AST or ALT \> 1.5 × ULN. For patients with liver metastasis AST or ALT \> 3 × ULN * Serum total bilirubin \> 1.5 mg/dL or \> 3 × ULN for patients with hereditary benign hyperbilirubinemia

Treatments Being Tested

DRUG

Nivolumab

480 mg Nivolumab every 4 weeks

DRUG

Relatlimab

160 mg Relatlimab every 4 weeks

DRUG

Ipilimumab

50 mg (1 mg/kg) intravenously every 8 weeks

DEVICE

Signatera genome MRD assay

SignateraTM is a personalized, tumor-informed circulating tumor DNA (ctDNA)-based test of molecular residual disease (MRD). The Signatera Designed on Genome test is a qualitative and quantitative test that reports the presence or absence of ctDNA as "ctDNA Positive" or "ctDNA Not Detected".

Locations (1)

Trial sites listed on ClinicalTrials.gov for this study. Site activation status can vary — confirm with the specific site before traveling for a screening visit.

NYU Langone Health
New York, New York, United States

How to Talk to Your Doctor About This Trial

Bring the printable summary of this trial — including the NCT ID (NCT07504796), the sponsor (NYU Langone Health), and the key eligibility criteria — to your next appointment. Your doctor can review the inclusion and exclusion criteria against your medical history, lab values, and current treatments to assess whether you are likely to qualify. They can also help you weigh whether trial participation makes sense alongside your existing care plan.

Useful questions to walk through together: What does the trial protocol require beyond standard care? How long is the active treatment phase, and how long is follow-up? Are there study visits at sites I can reach? Who pays for the trial-specific procedures, and who pays for standard-of-care portions? See our 25 questions to ask about clinical trials guide for a more complete checklist.

Authoritative Sources

The official record for this trial lives on ClinicalTrials.gov — the federal registry maintained by the National Library of Medicine at NIH. For background on how this trial fits into the FDA approval pathway, see the FDA drug approval process. For oncology-specific guidance for patients considering trials, the National Cancer Institute publishes patient-oriented overviews. International trial registries are aggregated by the WHO ICTRP.

Frequently Asked Questions

What is the NCT07504796 clinical trial studying?

The purpose of this study is to investigate the use of ctDNA measurements to guide first-lien therapy choice for patients with advanced or metastatic melanoma. Primary endpoints include progression-free survival. Secondary study endpoints include objective response rate and incidence and severity of immune-related adverse events. The full protocol is registered on ClinicalTrials.gov and includes the primary outcome measures, eligibility criteria, and study endpoints.

Who can participate in NCT07504796?

Eligibility for this trial depends on the specific inclusion and exclusion criteria set by the sponsor. The plain-English summary above translates the most important criteria into accessible language; the official clinical text is preserved in the collapsible section underneath. Whether you fit any specific trial is a medical decision your doctor needs to confirm — bring the trial information to your treating physician for a full review against your medical history.

How do I contact the trial site for NCT07504796?

Contact information registered with ClinicalTrials.gov is shown in the sidebar of this page. Before reaching out, confirm with your treating physician that this trial is appropriate for your situation. The trial site will then walk you through the screening process to determine final eligibility.

Is participating in a clinical trial safe?

Clinical trials in the United States are regulated by the FDA and overseen by Institutional Review Boards (IRBs) that review the protocol for safety. Risk varies by trial — Phase 1 studies test new treatments in humans for the first time, while Phase 3 trials use treatments that have already passed earlier safety screening. The informed consent document for any specific trial details the known risks and what to expect. Discuss those risks with your physician before deciding whether to participate.

Where can I verify the data on this page?

Every detail on this page comes directly from the ClinicalTrials.gov API. Click "View on ClinicalTrials.gov" in the sidebar to see the official, unmodified record. The federal record is always authoritative; this page is a structured presentation with a plain-English eligibility translation. For background on how clinical trials are regulated, see the FDA drug approval process documentation.

How This Page Is Built

Every field on this page is pulled directly from the ClinicalTrials.gov API v2 — no estimates, no proxies. The plain-English eligibility translation is generated from the original protocol text and reviewed for fidelity to the underlying clinical criteria. The original clinical text remains visible in the collapsible section above so users and clinicians can verify the translation. Read the full methodology for the data pipeline and known limitations.

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov API v2 record for NCT07504796. Maintained by the National Library of Medicine at NIH. Public domain. Cite as: "TrialFinderData. NCT07504796. Data: ClinicalTrials.gov."

Medical disclaimer: This page is informational, not medical advice. Talk to your doctor about whether a clinical trial is right for you.

Last updated 2026-06-07 · Data from ClinicalTrials.gov.