nivolumab
Nivolumab at a dose of 3 mg per kilogram of body weight every 2 weeks, plus a dacarbazine-matched placebo every 3 weeks
dacarbazine
1000 mg of dacarbazine per square meter of body-surface area every 3 weeks, plus a nivolumab-matched placebo every 2 weeks.
Treatment continued until there was disease progression, as assessed by the investigator, or an unacceptable level of toxic effects. As a result, the monitoring committee recommended that the study be unblinded and amended to allow patients enrolled in the dacarbazine group to receive nivolumab.
mML - L1 - BRAF wild
exclusion criteria were active brain metastases, ans patients who had received adjuvant therapy previously were not excluded.
double-blind
Europe, Israel, Australia, Canada, and South America
P3/ two sided test procedure with interim analysis. Hierarchy OS then PFS then ORR
Nivolumab was associated with significant improvements in overall survival and progression-free survival, as compared with dacarbazine, among previously untreated patients who had metastatic melanoma without a BRAF mutation