Post-ATU Study of Nivolumab

In order to reach goals of this study, collaboration had been established between BMS and the RIC-Mel network (network for Research and Clinical Investigational Research on Melanoma) (NCT03315468). The RIC-Mel network has set up a national database in order to reference the active file of melanoma patients in France. The RIC-Mel database, supported by Nantes University Hospital, had been approved by French authorities (CCTIRS and CNIL). The RIC-Mel network is coordinated by Pr B. DRENO (Nantes University Hospital) and Pr C. LEBBE (Saint-Louis Hospital, AP-HP, Paris). Nowadays, 49 centres located all over the country are participating, with more than 19,000 melanoma patients included in the database. The RIC-Mel database is referred as one of the privileged access to any research program on melanoma by the Cancerology Group (GCC) of the French Society of Dermatology . Based on this, BMS and the RIC-Mel network had established a partnership to set up a study in order to estimate the overall survival of melanoma patients treated by Nivolumab during the French ATU program. Data are collected in the RIC-Mel database by participating centres. Information of centres, follow-up of activity, data reviewing and extractions are realized by the RIC-Mel network. Data analysis is performed by BMS following a developed statistical protocol. Patients included in the study were patients with unresectable or advanced metastatic melanoma, which received at least one of Nivolumab, dispensed during the French ATU program.