A Phase III Study to Test the Benefit of a New Kind of Anti-cancer Treatment in Patients With Melanoma, After Surgical Removal of Their Tumor

Exclusion Criteria

• •The patient suffers from a mucosal or ocular melanoma.
• •The patient has or has had any history of in-transit metastases
• •The patient has been treated or is scheduled to be treated with an adjuvant anticancer therapy after the surgery that qualifies the patient for inclusion in the present trial.
• •The patient requires concomitant chronic treatment with systemic corticosteroids or any other immunosuppressive agents.
• •Use of any investigational or non-registered product (drug or vaccine) other than the study treatment.
• •The patient has a history of autoimmune disease.
• •The patient has a family history of congenital or hereditary immunodeficiency.
• •The patient is known to be positive for Human Immunodeficiency Virus (HIV) or has another confirmed or suspected immunosuppressive or immunodeficient condition.
• •History of allergic disease or reactions likely to be exacerbated by any component of the treatments.
• •The patient has psychiatric or addictive disorders that may compromise his/her ability to give informed consent or to comply with the trial procedures.
• •The patient has concurrent severe medical problems, unrelated to the malignancy, that would significantly limit full compliance with the study or expose the patient to unacceptable risk.
• •The patient has previous or concomitant malignancies at other sites, except effectively treated non-melanoma skin cancers or carcinoma in situ of the cervix or effectively treated malignancy that has been in remission for over 5 years and is highly likely to have been cured.
• •The patient has an uncontrolled bleeding disorder.
• •For female patients: the patient is pregnant or lactating.