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Refractory Melanoma: early-phase trial registry

2 of 4 indexed Refractory Melanoma trials are currently recruiting, with more weight in Phase 1-2.

Corpus placement: #4,115 of 28,707 conditions by registered trial count.

4 US clinical trials · 2 currently recruiting · #4,115 of 28,707 conditions by registered trial count

Refractory Melanoma: 4 US clinical trials tracked, 2 recruiting.

Refractory Melanoma is the subject of 4 registered US clinical trials on ClinicalTrials.gov, 2 of them currently open to new participants. 0 are in Phase 3-4 (later-stage) and 4 in Phase 1-2 (earlier-stage). The most active sponsor is M.D. Anderson Cancer Center, running 2 of these trials.

Enrollment posture brief

Registry condition refractory-melanoma

OPEN 2 | RECR 50% | LATE 0 | EARLY 4 | RANK #4115 | SPON 2

Nearest open-share peer: Abdominal Aortic Aneurysms (50% recruiting · 6 trials)

Ablation80%ACL Reconstruction80%Abuse, Drug60%Acceptability60%Refractory Melanoma (this)50%
Open-enrollment share among volume-matched conditions near Refractory Melanoma

Refractory Melanoma lists 2 open slots (50% of 4 indexed trials). Peers are matched on registered volume, not therapeutic-area browse lists. How peer matching works →

Key findings

What ClinicalTrials.gov does not surface for Refractory Melanoma on its own pages , computed from the registry mirror as of 2026-08-08. Each line carries its own denominator so it can be quoted as it stands.

  1. Refractory Melanoma is recruiting above its size-band peers.

    2 of 4 indexed trials (50%) are open to enrollment, against a 46.5% average across 27,806 conditions with fewer than 20 trials. The peer set uses the same ClinicalTrials.gov-derived counts as this page.

Phase 13Phase 21

Phase Distribution

PhaseTrial count
Phase 1 3
Phase 2 1

Named interventions

Most-linked intervention names on Refractory Melanoma records (sponsor-reported on ClinicalTrials.gov). Counts are trial links, not unique products.

Magnetic Resonance Elastography Procedure
1 trials
pIFN (peginterferon alfa-2a) Drug
1 trials
DOC1021 Biological
1 trials
Cobimetinib Drug
1 trials
Quality-of-Life Assessment Procedure
1 trials
Tumor resection Procedure
1 trials
Bevacizumab Biological
1 trials
Biopsy Procedure Procedure
1 trials

US sites by state

Facility locations filed on Refractory Melanoma trials. A trial with sites in several states counts in each.

Texas 2 trials
Maryland 1 trials
Massachusetts 1 trials
Florida 1 trials
Alabama 1 trials

Source: ClinicalTrials.gov, National Library of Medicine. Data is informational only.

What to do with this Refractory Melanoma page

4 registered trials, 2 currently recruiting, is a starting point for a conversation, not a diagnosis or a recommendation.

Trial and recruiting counts reflect ClinicalTrials.gov registry status as of the data vintage above; individual trial eligibility and enrollment status can change.

Every figure on PlainTrial is rendered directly from the ClinicalTrials.gov registry, no number is typed in by an editor. This Refractory Melanoma condition card totals 4 registered trials; most-linked intervention Magnetic Resonance Elastography; top US site state Texas. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, the data changelog, or report a data error.