🏛️ Verified NIH Record • Updated 2023-11-21

Adjuvant Encorafenib and Binimetinib in High-risk Stage II Melanoma With a BRAF Mutation. (NCT05270044)

🔵 Active, Not Recruiting Phase3 💊 Investigational Drug / Biologic Sponsor: Pierre Fabre Medicament

🩺 Plain-English Summary (8th-Grade Level)

The purpose of the Columbus-AD study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of 12 months of encorafenib in combination with binimetinib in adjuvant setting of BRAF V600E/K mutant stage IIB/C melanoma versus the current standard of care (surveillance).

Who can join: To join this study, participants generally need to meet the listed inclusion criteria (19 items) and avoid the listed exclusions (20 items).

Location: Centro Oncologico Korben — CABA, Buenos Aires

📋 "Do I Qualify?" — 1-Minute Self Screener

Instant Checklist

Check every box below. If you can check all of them, you may meet the study's basic screening requirements (final eligibility is confirmed by the site team).

Usually NOT eligible if any of the following apply:

  • Exclusion Criteria: Pre-screening
  • Unknown ulceration status;
  • Uveal and mucosal melanoma;
  • Clinically apparent metastases (N+/M1);
  • Microsatellites, satellites and/or in-transit metastases,
  • Local (scar) recurrences. Screening
  • Breast feeding women;
  • Pregnant women;
  • History or current evidence of retinal vein occlusion (RVO) or current risk factors for RVO;
  • History of thromboembolic or cerebrovascular events ≤ 12 weeks prior to randomization;
  • History of previous or concurrent malignancy within preceding 3 years or any condition with a life expectancy of less than 5 years;
  • Participants with a prior cancer associated with RAS mutation;

🔍 Extracted verbatim from the official NIH eligibility criteria. Always confirm with the study coordinator.

📍 All Participating Trial Locations (155 Sites)

  • Centro Oncologico Korben — CABA, Buenos Aires
  • Centro de Investigaciones Medicas Mar del Plata — Mar del Plata, Buenos Aires
  • Fundacion CIDEA — Ciudad Autonoma Bs As, Ciudad Autonoma Buenos Aires
  • Sanatorio Britanico S.A. — Rosario, Santa Fe Province
  • Instituto de Oncologia de Rosario — Rosario, Santa Fe Province
  • Hospital Aleman — Ciudad Autonoma Buenos Aires,
  • Instituto Medico Especializado Alexander Fleming — Ciudad Autonoma Buenos Aires,
  • Clinica Adventista Belgrano — Ciudad Autonoma Buenos Aires,
  • Westmead Hospital — Sydney, New South Wales
  • Melanoma Institute Australia — Wollstonecraft, New South Wales
  • Princess Alexandra Hospital — Woolloongabba, Queensland
  • Adelaide Oncology & Haematolog, Calvary North Adelaide Hospital — North Adelaide, South Australia
  • Box Hill Hospital — Box Hill, Victoria
  • Austin Health — Heidelberg, Victoria
  • The Alfred Hospital — Prahran, Victoria
  • Hollywood Private Hospital — Nedlands, Western Australia
  • Sir Charles Gairdner Hospital — Nedlands, Western Australia
  • Landeskrankenhaus - Universitaetsklinikum Graz — Graz,
  • Krankenhaus der Elisabethinen Linz — Linz,
  • Universitätsklinikum St.Pölten-Lilienfeld — Sankt Pölten,
  • AKH - Medizinische Universität Wien — Vienna,
  • Institut Jules Bordet — Anderlecht,
  • ZNA Middelheim — Antwerp,
  • Universitair Ziekenhuis Brussel — Brussels,
  • Cliniques Universitaires Saint-Luc — Brussels,

💰 Cost, Insurance & Patient Rights

  • 100% Free Items: The investigational treatment and protocol-required procedures are supplied at zero cost by the sponsor.
  • Routine Patient Care: Under federal law (ACA § 2709) and many state statutes, routine care costs are covered during participation.
  • Voluntary Participation: You may withdraw at any time without affecting your standard medical care.
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