Adding Anakinra and Tocilizumab to Nivolumab and Ipilimumab for the Treatment of Melanoma Patients 50 Years of Age or Older

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• Patients must not be receiving other concomitant biologic therapy, targeted therapy, chemotherapy, other anti-cancer therapy or any other investigational agents while on this protocol
• Immunosuppressive systemic corticosteroids equivalent to prednisone 10 mg or greater in the 14 days prior to the first cycle

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• Active autoimmune disease requiring systemic treatment in the past 2 years (i.e. use of disease modifying agents or immunosuppressive drugs). Replacement therapy (e.g. thyroxine, insulin, or physiologic corticosteroid replacement therapy for adrenal or pituitary insufficiency, etc) is not considered a form of systemic treatment
• Uncontrolled, intercurrent illness including, but not limited to, ongoing or active infection, symptomatic congestive heart failure, unstable angina pectoris, clinically significant cardiac arrhythmia, or psychiatric illness / social situations that would limit compliance with study requirements
• History of solid organ or bone marrow transplantation
• Any condition which in the investigator's opinion deems the participant an unsuitable candidate to receive study drug

Egyéb

• Positive pregnancy test, active pregnancy or nursing / breast-feeding, due to the potential for congenital abnormalities and the potential of this regimen to harm nursing infants

• Age ≥ 50 years old
• Patients with melanoma, who are going to be treated with ipilimumab 1mg/Kg and nivolumab 3mg/Kg as a standard of care (SOC)
• Eastern Cooperative Oncology Group (ECOG) performance status score of 0 or 1
• Platelets ≥ 50 000/µL
• Hemoglobin ≥ 8.0 g/dL
• Absolute neutrophil count (ANC) ≥ 1500/μL
• Total bilirubin ≤ 1.5 institutional upper limit of normal (ULN)
• Aspartate aminotransferase (AST) (serum glutamic oxaloacetic transaminase [SGOT]) ≤ 3.0 X institutional ULN (up to 5 X institutional ULN if patient has liver metastases)
• Alanine aminotransferase (ALT) (serum glutamic pyruvic transaminase [SGPT]) ≤ 3.0 X institutional ULN (up to 5 X institutional ULN if patient has liver metastases)
• Creatinine < 2.0 ULN
• Women of child-bearing potential and men must agree to use adequate contraception (hormonal or barrier method of birth control; abstinence) prior to study entry, for the duration of study participation, and for 90 days following completion of therapy. Should a woman become pregnant or suspect she is pregnant while participating in this study, she should inform her treating physician immediately
• Willingness to adhere to the study visit schedule and the prohibitions and restrictions specified in this protocol