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Filter by:The purpose of this study is to find the number of natural killer (NK) cells from non-HLA matched donors that can be safely infused into patients with cancer. NK cells are a form of lymphocytes that defend against cancer cells. NK cells in cancer patients do not work well to fight cancer. In this study, the NK cells are being donated by healthy individuals without cancer who are not "matched" by human leukocyte antigen (HLA) genes to patients. After receiving these NK cells, patients may also be given a drug called ALT803. ALT803 is a protein that keeps NK cells alive, helps them grow in number and supports their cancer-fighting characteristics. HLA-unmatched NK cell infusion is investigational (experimental) because the process has not approved by the Food and Drug Administration (FDA).
Statins are widely used as lipid-lowering agents to lower cardiovascular risk with a favorable safety profile. In our recent in vitro study, the addition of simvastatin to chemoradiotherapy with 5-FU showed synergistic anticancer effect in various colon cancer cells (unpublished data). So we planned this study to investigate the synergistic effect of simvastatin combined with capecitabine and radiotherapy in locally advanced rectal cancer patients.
The purpose of this study is to assess the feasibility of selecting personalized therapies for colon cancer patients who have failed standard treatments, using a new methodology based on the determination of a profile of chemosensitivity by comprehensive genetic expression analysis from tumor samples.
The FOLFIRINOX protocol seems a promising protocol as attack treatment of a rectum cancer, with an objective response rate of about 70 %. This phase II is to investigate if this systematic attack chemotherapy could control at the same time the rectal tumor and the synchronous metastasis without compromising secondarily the tumor or the metastasis resection or a radiochemotherapy administration. 1. The main objective of the trial is to investigate the tumoral control rate at 4 months, according to the RECIST criteria (version 1.1). 2. The secondary objectives are: - safety of the treament, - rate of local failure and local complication (occlusion, important bleedings, resistant pains with morphinic treatment, perforation), - survival without local failure (radiological or clinical progression of the rectal cancer or local complication), - rectal tumor response rate (CT scan, MRI and endocopy), - metastasis response rate, - disease free survival after complete resection (of primitive tumor and metastases), - progression free survival (local or distal), - overall survival, quality of life (QLQ-C30 + CR 29).
This is a multi-centre randomised trial comparing long course (LC) preoperative chemoradiation with short course (SC) preoperative radiotherapy for patients with localised T3 rectal cancer.