Trial reportJournal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology2023
Adjuvant Therapy of Nivolumab Combined With Ipilimumab Versus Nivolumab Alone in Patients With Resected Stage IIIB-D or Stage IV Melanoma (CheckMate 915).
Trial report in Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology, 2023. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. It is linked to trial NCT06365619 (Phase II Study of Neoadjuvant Ipilimumab/Nivolumab for Patients With Recurrent, High Risk, Resectable Melanoma), which is not on this map. Cited by 98 papers, 8 of them syntheses that pooled it.
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Phase II Study of Neoadjuvant Ipilimumab/Nivolumab for Patients With Recurrent, High Risk, Resectable Melanoma
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98 citing papers in PubMed, 8 syntheses or guidelines pooled it, 153 citations in OpenAlex.
- Sex, Timing, and Outcomes of Curative-Intent Immunotherapy: A Systematic Review and Meta-Analysis.JAMA network open · 2026Pooled it
- Dabrafenib and trametinib vs anti-PD(L)1 for the adjuvant treatment of locally advanced BRAF-mutant melanoma: a systematic review and meta-analysis.The oncologist · 2025Pooled it
- Arthralgia in patients with cancer receiving immune checkpoint inhibitors: a systematic review and meta-analysis.Immunotherapy · 2025Pooled it
- Cutaneous melanoma: ESMO Clinical Practice Guideline for diagnosis, treatment and follow-up.Annals of oncology : official journal of the European Society for Medical Oncology · 2025Guideline
- SEOM-GEM clinical guidelines for cutaneous melanoma (2023).Clinical & translational oncology : official publication of the Federation of Spanish Oncology Societies and of the National Cancer Institute of Mexico · 2024Guideline
- Society for Immunotherapy of Cancer (SITC) clinical practice guideline on immunotherapy for the treatment of melanoma, version 3.0.Journal for immunotherapy of cancer · 2023Guideline
- Evaluating relapse-free survival as an endpoint for overall survival in adjuvant immunotherapy trials.Journal of the National Cancer Institute · 2023Pooled it
- Efficacy and safety of immune checkpoint inhibitors and targeted therapies in resected melanoma: a systematic review and network meta-analysis.Frontiers in pharmacology · 2023Pooled it
- Adjuvant nivolumab and relatlimab in stage III/IV melanoma: the randomized phase 3 RELATIVITY-098 trial.Nature medicine · 2025Trial
- Pretreatment and on-treatment ctDNA and tissue biomarkers predict recurrence in patients with stage IIIB-D/IV melanoma treated with adjuvant immunotherapy: CheckMate 915.Journal for immunotherapy of cancer · 2025Trial
- Nivolumab With or Without Ipilimumab in Patients With Recurrent or Metastatic Merkel Cell Carcinoma: A Nonrandomized, Open-Label, International, Multicenter Phase I/II Study.Journal of clinical oncology : official journal of the American Society of Clinical Oncology · 2025Trial
- A Phase II Basket Trial of Dual Anti-CTLA-4 and Anti-PD-1 Blockade in Rare Tumors (DART SWOG 1609 Cohort 47) in Patients with Gestational Trophoblastic Neoplasia.Clinical cancer research : an official journal of the American Association for Cancer Research · 2024Trial
- Adjuvant Pembrolizumab versus IFNα2b or Ipilimumab in Resected High-Risk Melanoma.Cancer discovery · 2022Trial
- Inhibitory receptor profiles for joint prediction of benefit and toxicity in immune checkpoint blockade.iScience · 2026Review
- Five-year survival with neoadjuvant therapy in melanoma: updated pooled analysis from the International Neoadjuvant Melanoma Consortium (INMC).Nature medicine · 2026Article
- Linking early and late endpoints in adjuvant immunotherapy trials: an evaluation of multiple clinical outcomes.The oncologist · 2026Article
- Durable benefits, but no improvements in overall survival: what can we learn from CheckMate 238 after 9 years of follow-up?Translational cancer research · 2026Article
- Management of Advanced Solid Tumors Recurring After Adjuvant Immune Checkpoint Inhibitors: A Structured Narrative Review.Current oncology (Toronto, Ont.) · 2026Review
- Beyond theJCO precision oncology · 2026Review
- Preclinical and Virtual Models of Mucosal Melanoma: Bridging Translational Gaps in a Rare and Lethal Cancer.Pigment cell & melanoma research · 2026Review
38 more citing papers are in PubMed but not listed here.
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Abstract
purposeIpilimumab and nivolumab have each shown treatment benefit for high-risk resected melanoma. The phase III CheckMate 915 trial evaluated adjuvant nivolumab plus ipilimumab versus nivolumab alone in patients with resected stage IIIB-D or IV melanoma. PATIENTS AND
methodsIn this randomized, double-blind, phase III trial, 1,833 patients received nivolumab 240 mg once every 2 weeks plus ipilimumab 1 mg/kg once every 6 weeks (916 patients) or nivolumab 480 mg once every 4 weeks (917 patients) for ≤ 1 year. After random assignment, patients were stratified by tumor programmed death ligand 1 (PD-L1) expression and stage. Dual primary end points were recurrence-free survival (RFS) in randomly assigned patients and in the tumor PD-L1 expression-level < 1% subgroup.
resultsAt a minimum follow-up of approximately 23.7 months, there was no significant difference between treatment groups for RFS in the all-randomly assigned patient population (hazard ratio, 0.92; 95% CI, 0.77 to 1.09;
conclusionNivolumab 240 mg once every 2 weeks plus ipilimumab 1 mg/kg once every 6 weeks did not improve RFS versus nivolumab 480 mg once every 4 weeks in patients with stage IIIB-D or stage IV melanoma. Nivolumab showed efficacy consistent with previous adjuvant studies in a population resembling current practice using American Joint Committee on Cancer eighth edition, reaffirming nivolumab as a standard of care for melanoma adjuvant treatment.
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