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. Author manuscript; available in PMC: 2022 Sep 1.
Published in final edited form as: Radiol Clin North Am. 2021 Sep;59(5):755–772. doi: 10.1016/j.rcl.2021.05.007

Table 2:

Clinical trials integrating and investigating incorporating PET imaging into the response assessment during IO therapy or the surveillance period following IO therapy for melanoma patients as registered at www.clinicaltrials.gov at the time of submission.

Study ID Brief description Country enrolling
patients
NCT03356470 Comparing FDG PET and FLT PET, along with blood and tissue biomarkers USA
NCT03888950 Evaluate whether FDG PET predicts therapeutic response after 2 cycles of PD-1 directed therapy France
NCT04272658 Determine the value of 4D body-to-whole dynamic acquisition in FDG PET for immunotherapy monitoring France
NCT03584334 Using FDG PET to distinguish tumor progression versus pseudo-progression in patients with melanoma or non-small cell lung cancer France
NCT02716077 Early evaluation of response to pembrolizumab in patients with melanoma USA
NCT04478318 Determine the minimum FDG PET scan duration on a total-body versus conventional scanner USA
NCT04462406 Determine how FDG PET may allow early discontinuation of PD-1 directed therapy in unresectable stage IIIB-IV melanoma USA
NCT03116412 Prospective randomized multicenter trial to assess the role of imaging during follow up after resection of Stage IIb-c and III melanoma Sweden
NCT03554083 Determine the role of FDG PET in assessing response to neoadjuvant combination targeted and immunotherapy for patients with high-risk stage III melanoma USA
NCT02621021 Determine the role of FDG PET in assessing response to talimogene laherparepvec with or without radiation for patients with advanced melanoma, Merkel cell carcinoma or other solid tumors with skin metastasis USA
NCT02575404 Determine the role of FDG PET in assessing response to GR-MD-02 plus pembrolizumab for patients with advanced melanoma, nonsmall cell lung cancer or head and neck squamous cell cancer USA
NCT04165967 Determine the role of FDG PET in assessing response to adoptive tumor infiltrating lymphocyte transfer plus nivolumab for patients with metastatic melanoma that failed immunotherapy Switzerland
NCT03311308 Correlate hypoxia measurements in tumor via FDG PET in advanced melanoma patients treated with pembrolizumab with or without metformin USA
NCT03161756 Determine the role of FDG PET in assessing response to denosumab plus nivolumab with or without ipilimumab for patients with Australia
metastatic melanoma
NCT04207086 Determine the role of FDG PET in assessing response to neoadjuvant pembrolizumab plus levatinib for patients with resectable stage
III/IV melanoma
Australia
NCT03475134 Determine the role of FDG PET and 68GaNODAGA-RGD PET in assessing response to tumor infiltrating lymphocyte therapy plus nivolumab rescue for patients with unresectable locally advanced or metastatic melanoma Switzerland
NCT02858921 Determine the role of FDG PET in assessing response to neoadjuvant dabrafenib, trametinib, and/or pembrolizumab for patients with BRAF mutant resectable stage III melanoma Australia