LATe TreatmENT Related Toxicity in Melanoma (LATENT)

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LATe TreatmENT Related Toxicity in Melanoma (LATENT)

Study Purpose

Recent improvements in advanced melanoma treatment with immunotherapy have dramatically improved patient survival. Longer survival however has come at a cost of toxicity. Short term side effects can occur in >50% of patients undergoing immunotherapy treatment; however, many long-term survivors are also living with serious consequences of these treatments which may be under reported in literature. Data regarding long term toxicities, from these treatments is lacking and an area of important unmet clinical need. Therefore, in collaboration with the Clatterbridge and Christie's teams, the investigators propose to retrospectively analyse the nature, incidence, frequency, and severity of immune related toxicities in around 400 patients who received immunotherapy for advanced melanoma with ongoing durable responses to treatment of at least 3 years. The investigators will set up a collective anonymized database and record this information through review of electronic medical records of patients that meet the eligibility criteria. The investigators will also review the patterns of use of long-term immunosuppression and assess the need for specialist referrals for managing late side effects. The investigators hope that this data will help us address gaps in the management of long-term survivors by identifying areas of need and establishing a coordinated evidence based multidisciplinary service to provide personalised, risk stratified long term follow up.

Recruitment Criteria

Accepts Healthy Volunteers Healthy volunteers are participants who do not have a disease or condition, or related conditions or symptoms	Yes
Study Type An interventional clinical study is where participants are assigned to receive one or more interventions (or no intervention) so that researchers can evaluate the effects of the interventions on biomedical or health-related outcomes. An observational clinical study is where participants identified as belonging to study groups are assessed for biomedical or health outcomes. Searching Both is inclusive of interventional and observational studies.	Observational
Eligible Ages	18 Years and Over
Gender	All

More Inclusion & Exclusion Criteria

Inclusion Criteria:

- Histological diagnosis of melanoma.

- Age 18 years or older.

- Treated between January 2005- December 2020 with immune checkpoint inhibitor therapy including either Pembrolizumab, Nivolumab, Ipilimumab or combinations, for advanced melanoma (unresectable stage III or stage IV) - Ongoing response to therapy of at least 3 years duration at point of study entry.

Exclusion Criteria:

- Diagnoses of other concurrent malignancies needing active treatment.

- Received Immune checkpoint inhibitors for non-metastatic melanoma or in the adjuvant setting only.

- Received other treatments including targeted therapy as the most recent line of treatment or following immunotherapy.

- Progression of disease on or following immunotherapy

Trial Details

Trial ID: This trial id was obtained from ClinicalTrials.gov, a service of the U.S. National Institutes of Health, providing information on publicly and privately supported clinical studies of human participants with locations in all 50 States and in 196 countries.	NCT06414343
Phase Phase 1: Studies that emphasize safety and how the drug is metabolized and excreted in humans. Phase 2: Studies that gather preliminary data on effectiveness (whether the drug works in people who have a certain disease or condition) and additional safety data. Phase 3: Studies that gather more information about safety and effectiveness by studying different populations and different dosages and by using the drug in combination with other drugs. Phase 4: Studies occurring after FDA has approved a drug for marketing, efficacy, or optimal use.
Lead Sponsor The sponsor is the organization or person who oversees the clinical study and is responsible for analyzing the study data.	Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
Principal Investigator The person who is responsible for the scientific and technical direction of the entire clinical study.	Kate Young, MD
Principal Investigator Affiliation	Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust
Agency Class Category of organization(s) involved as sponsor (and collaborator) supporting the trial.	Other
Overall Status	Not yet recruiting
Countries	United Kingdom
Conditions The disease, disorder, syndrome, illness, or injury that is being studied.	Melanoma

Additional Details

LATENT will be a retrospective non-interventional analysis of pre-existing data from patient medical records and, therefore patients will not be required to participate in any risky procedures, treatments or hospital visits. The study will therefore not require explicit informed consent from eligible participants. A potential ethical issue could arise around explicit consent of patients for collection and publication of their data. The investigators aim to circumvent this by only using data that has already been recorded from direct patient care. The investigators will pseudo-anonymise personal data and mitigate risk of identification through: 1. Direct health care providers screening for eligible patients from clinic records based on clear inclusion and exclusion criteria. 2. Allocation of de-identified serial numbers for patients on the database used to collect and record relevant data. 3. Exportation and storage of de-identified data from all sites on a common trusted research environment (TRE) 'BRIDGE' for blinded analysis by the Research team. 4. Reporting of anonymised/de-identified data only, for publication. In addition, the investigators aim to reduce selection bias by eliminating the need for explicit consent as unwell patients with greater clinical needs may be unable to consent and would not be included in the study, thereby only selecting for well patients and potentially underrepresenting a vital group of patients, compromising the scientific validity of the study. As this is a multicentre study, de-identified, anonymised data from all centres will be exported and stored in a single secure password protected TRE for analysis. The main centre in charge of maintaining and analysing the database, with appropriate data sharing agreements with individual sites, will be The Royal Marsden team. The investigators do not anticipate any legal issues arising from this study.

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