Clinical Research Directory

Inclusion Criteria: * 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 Exclusion Criteria: * 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 * 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 * 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 * 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