NICAM

Phase II trial of nilotinib in the treatment of patients with c-KIT mutated advanced acral and mucosal melanoma.

Disease site: Melanoma

Treatment modality: Systemic therapy

Status: Closed

Trial details

NICAM is a phase II, open label, single arm, multicentre trial to evaluate the efficacy of nilotinib in advanced c-KIT mutated advanced acral and mucosal melanoma. The trial will also correlate c-KIT mutation, gene amplification and over expression with response to treatment and survival.

NICAM closed to recruitment in August 2014. 219 patients were registered for screening from 16 UK sites over 5 years. 29 of these patients were eligible for trial entry and received nilotinib 400 mg, twice daily, for as long as they gained clinical benefit. Participants will be followed up until objective disease progression; after this they will be followed up for life.

Further information

Chief Investigator: Dr James Larkin, The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust

ICR-CTSU Scientific Lead: Professor Judith Bliss

Trial management contact: [email protected] 

ISRCTN: 39058880

Sponsors: The Royal Marsden NHS Foundation Trust and The Institute of Cancer Research

Funding: Cancer Research UK (CRUK/09/028) and Novartis

View NICAM on the National Institute for Health Research website: NIHR - Be Part Of Research

Patient friendly information is available from the following link:

UK CancerHelp

Publications and presentations

Larkin JMG, Turajlic S, Nathan PD, Lorigan P, Stamp G, Gonzalez de Castro D, Martin N, Griffiths J, Edmonds K, Sarker S, James MG, A'Hern R, Coombes G, Snowdon C, Bliss JM, Gore ME, Marais R. A Phase II trial of nilotinib in the treatment of patients with KIT mutated advanced acral and mucosal melanoma (NICAM). J Clin Oncol. 2011; 29(15 Suppl): TPS229.