Background:
Aldesleukin is used to treat metastatic or advanced melanoma and renal cell carcinoma. Pembrolizumab is used to treat many cancers including melanoma. Researchers want to see if these drugs can be used together to produce better results in people with these types of cancer.
Objective:
To learn if the combination of pembrolizumab and aldesleukin can be used to treat metastatic or advanced melanoma and renal cell cancer.
Eligibility:
Adults aged 18 years or older who have metastatic or advanced melanoma or renal cell carcinoma.
Design:
Participants will be screened with:
* Medical history * Physical exam * Electrocardiogram * Blood and urine tests * Ability to perform tasks of daily living * Imaging scans (CT, MRI, PET, and/or X-rays). They may get a contrast agent to enhance the images. * Photographs, if needed
Some of these tests will be repeated during the study.
Participants will receive the study drugs by IV (a plastic tube that is put into a vein) for 4 days. A second cycle of treatment will be given 21 days later. They will stay in the hospital for each of the cycles in the first course of treatment. After 2 months, their cancer will be evaluated. They may receive a second course of pembrolizumab alone on Days 1 and 21. They will not have to stay in the hospital for this course.
About 30 days after treatment ends, participants will have a safety follow-up visit. Then they will have visits every 3 months for up to 1 year, and then every 6 months for up to 4 years. Follow-up can also be done by phone, email, and mail. If their cancer gets worse, they will stop having visits.
Participation will last for 5 years....
Participants must have histologically or cytologically confirmed cancer that falls into one of three cohorts: (1) metastatic melanoma or advanced locoregional melanoma not amenable to curative surgical resection and refractory to anti-PD-1 therapy; (2) metastatic renal cell carcinoma (clear cell histology) refractory to at least one line of PD1/PDL1 based therapy; (3) metastatic or advanced locoregional melanoma not amenable to curative surgical resection and naive to anti-PD-1 therapy.
Participants must have measurable disease (per RECIST v1.1 criteria), metastatic melanoma or renal cell cancer.
Age >=18 years of age.
Clinical performance status of ECOG 0 or 1.
Participant is nursing because of the potentially dangerous effects of the treatment on the fetus or infant.
Concurrent systemic steroid therapy.
Active systemic infections requiring anti-infective treatment, coagulation disorders, or any other active or uncompensated major medical illnesses.
Any form of primary immunodeficiency (such as Severe Combined Immunodeficiency Disease and AIDS).
National Cancer Institute (NCI)
Lead sponsor