NCT04645680Active, not recruitingPhase 2
Diet and Immune Effects Trial: DIET- A Randomized Double Blinded Dietary Intervention Study in Patients With Metastatic Melanoma Receiving Immunotherapy
Source: ClinicalTrials.gov · Last updated 30 Jan 2026
Brief summary (registry, in English)
This is a randomized, double-blind, fully controlled feeding study that will enroll melanoma patients starting standard-of-care ICB in three settings: adjuvant, neoadjuvant, and unresectable. Patients are randomized to the high fiber or healthy control diet. The goal of the study is to establish the effects of dietary intervention on the structure and function of the gut microbiome in patients with melanoma treated with SOC immunotherapies.
- Status (registry)
- Active, not recruiting
- Phase (registry)
- Phase 2
- Study type
- Interventional
- Enrollment
- 50 (actual)
- First submitted
- 16 Oct 2020
- Start date
- 24 Jun 2020
- Primary completion date
- 28 Feb 2026
- Lead sponsor
- M.D. Anderson Cancer Center
- Diseases
- Kidney cancer, Melanoma
- NCT number
- NCT04645680
What you commit to
- Study type: Interventional · Phase 2
- Participants enrolled: 50
- From 24 Jun 2020 to the primary completion date, 28 Feb 2026
- 1 site in 1 country
- Visits and tests: ask the trial team, the registry does not list them
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Who cannot take part
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Prior treatment
- Unresolved \>= grade III immune-related adverse event on immunotherapy (other than endocrinopathy requiring hormone replacement)
- Has a condition requiring systemic treatment with either corticosteroids (\> 10 mg daily prednisone equivalents) or other immunosuppressive medications within 14 days of study intervention administration. Inhaled or topical steroids, and adrenal replacement doses \> 10 mg daily prednisone equivalents are permitted in the absence of active autoimmune disease
- Regularly taking probiotics, fiber supplements, or any other medication or supplement that could affect study outcome as determined by the principal investigator and unable/unwilling to discontinue for the purpose of the study. These agents must be discontinued at least 14 days prior to start of diet
- Current smoker or heavy drinker (defined as \> 14 drinks per week) or current self reported illicit drug use
- Uncontrolled concurrent illness or infection or psychiatric illness/social situations that would limit compliance with study requirements
Other illness
- History of \>= grade II colitis or diarrhea on immunotherapy or any ongoing colitis or diarrhea of any grade
- History of active inflammatory bowel disease or major gastrointestinal surgery (not including appendectomy or cholecystectomy) within 3 months of enrollment or any history of total colectomy, or bariatric surgery (bariatric surgery which does not disrupt the gastrointestinal lumen, i.e. restrictive procedures such as banding, are permitted).
Lab values
- Diagnosis of diabetes mellitus type I or type II that requires medical treatment or random glucose \> 200 mg/dL
Other
- Medical contraindications to intervention diet as determined by the treating physician
- Self-reported major dietary restrictions related to the intervention
- Antibiotic use within 21 days of planned start of equilibration diet (self-reported and/or noted by the treating physician)
- Currently consuming an average estimated daily fiber intake exceeding 20 grams based on the results of the preliminary dietary assessment; vegetarian or vegan
- Unable or unwilling to undergo study procedures
- Plan for travel during the study that would preclude adherence to prescribed diets
- Cognitively impaired adults
Who the study is looking for
- Age ≥ 18 years old.
- Body mass index (BMI) 18.5-40 kg/m\^2
- Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status of 0 or 1
- English-speaking
- Self-reported willingness to exclusively eat the provided diets
- Self-reported willingness to comply with scheduled visits, undergo venipuncture, and provide stool samples
- Cohort-specific:
- 1 Adjuvant Melanoma: i. Resected Stage II-IV melanoma with planned initiation of adjuvant anti-PD1 +/- anti-CTLA4 or anti-LAG3
- 2 Unresectable Melanoma: i. Histologically confirmed unresectable stage III or Stage IV melanoma with planned initiation of standard of care anti-PD1 +/- CTLA4 or anti-PD1 +/- LAG3 immunotherapy and no prior immunotherapy in the metastatic setting.
- 3 Neoadjuvant Melanoma: i. Histologically confirmed stage III/IV melanoma with planned initiation of neoadjuvant anti-PD1 +/- anti-CTLA4 or anti-LAG3 1. Participants must have archival tissue block available or be willing to undergo a newly-obtained core needle or incisional biopsy at baseline. Fine needle aspiration is not acceptable.
- 4 Unresectable RCC: i. Unresectable clear-cell renal cell carcinoma with planned initiation of standard of care anti-PD1 +/- anti-CTLA4 immunotherapy
Age in the registry: 18 years to - · Sex: All · Does not accept healthy volunteers
Sites (1)
Sites in registry order. Pick your city on the disease page to sort them by distance.
| Site | City | Country | Site status |
|---|---|---|---|
| M D Anderson Cancer Center Coordinator of this site? Confirm its status | Houston | United States | Unknown status |
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