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Filter by:This three-cohort, multi-stage, randomized, Phase II, multicenter trial will evaluate the safety and tolerability and estimate the efficacy of cobimetinib plus paclitaxel versus placebo plus paclitaxel in Cohort I, of cobimetinib plus atezolizumab plus paclitaxel in Cohort II, and of cobimetinib plus atezolizumab plus nab-paclitaxel in Cohort III in participants with metastatic or locally advanced, triple-negative adenocarcinoma of the breast who have not received prior systemic therapy for metastatic breast cancer (MBC). Participants may continue on study treatment until the development of progressive disease (PD) or the loss of clinical benefit, unacceptable toxicity, and/or consent withdrawal. The Cohort I target sample size is 12 participants for the safety run-in stage and approximately 90 participants in the expansion stage. Each of Cohorts II and III will consist of a safety run-in stage of approximately 15 participants followed by an expansion stage of approximately 15 participants.
The goal of this clinical research is to learn if an ultrasound contrast agent called OPTISON (perflutren protein type A) is effective in finding sentinel lymph nodes before surgery. Contrast agents can help make ultrasound images more accurate. The sentinel lymph node is the first node that may be the target of cancer cells that spread from the tumor.
This trial is a three-armed randomized controlled trial which will explore the utility of an implementation intention intervention on aerobic and resistance exercise in older (60+) prostate and breast cancer survivors and improving quality of life. It is expected that those in the experimental groups will report greater increases in their physical activity, resulting in greater improvements in their quality of life.
Racial differences in health care are documented across the health care continuum and persist in aging and end-of-life (EOL) care. African Americans (AA) and other underrepresented minorities often choose more aggressive therapies at the end of life and are less likely to utilize hospice care in the terminal stages of their illness. Potential reasons for these disparities include: lack of knowledge of and misperceptions about palliative and hospice care, spiritual beliefs, and mistrust in the health care system, among others. Despite the literature on disparities in end-of-life (EOL) care and reasons for underuse and the presence of national EOL care guidelines, attempts to address this problem have been limited and often not rigorously evaluated. The majority of interventions to promote EOL care were done in majority populations and focused predominantly on trying to change physician awareness of patient's pain, symptoms, and values or to change physician communication behavior. While these early studies made tremendous contributions to the study of EOL care and the needs of the terminally ill, the interventions associated with these studies did not reach their desired effectiveness. The investigators propose a different strategy that would focus specifically on previously identified barriers to utilization of advance directives, palliative care, and hospice care among African Americans - including physicians' difficulty and discomfort with prognostication, AA patients' knowledge, attitudes and beliefs towards hospice and palliative care, conflict between patients' spiritual beliefs and the general hospice and palliative medicine philosophy of care, and medical mistrust. The goal of this project is to improve methods of prognostication for physicians and increase awareness of EOL care options for AAs. To overcome the dual challenges of physicians' reluctance to discuss EOL care and patients' discomfort in engaging in such conversations, the investigators will use the electronic medical record (EMR) to automatically identify AA patients with life-limiting illness who are eligible for counseling about EOL care options. To change knowledge and attitudes toward EOL care options among AA patients, the investigators will design a culturally sensitive intervention that will combine multimedia materials and a culturally concordant lay health advisor who will deliver tailored education and counseling.
The purpose of this comparable cohort study is to evaluate the efficacy and safety of immediate axillary plasty with pedicled partial Latissimus Dorsi muscle flap for lymphedema prevention in breast cancer patients who are undergoing axillary dissection.
The NIR light source of our device is based on light-emitting diodes (LEDs), which can deliver sufficient light to biological tissues and induce fluorescence emission to meet the needs of the planned clinical studies. It should be noted that the light source is still well under the US FDA recommended limit for NIR exposure and ANSI standard. In addition, the light source is not laser-based, which is significantly safer than other optical imaging systems utilizing laser technologies. The fluorescence signals will be received by the detector portion of our device. Gain-settings could be easily adjusted during operation to optimize the contrast between high fluorescence areas (tumors) and low fluorescence areas (normal tissues). Real-time fluorescence video will be displayed in the goggle eyepiece as well as on a secondary monitor to facilitate viewing by other surgeons in the room.
The purpose of the study is to investigate the feasibility of a preoperative, single dose, ablative partial breast radiation treatment in patients with early-stage breast cancer.
This is an open-label, dose-finding, safety, pharmacokinetics (PK), and evidence-of-activity study of GDC-0927 in postmenopausal women with locally advanced or metastatic Estrogen Receptor Positive (ER+) Human Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor 2 (HER2) breast cancer. The study will be conducted in two parts: Dose escalation and Dose expansion. During dose escalation, GDC-0927 will be administered orally as a single dose on Day -7 for PK evaluation during the lead-in period. Depending on safety and tolerability, participants will be assigned sequentially to escalating doses of GDC-0927 using standard 3+3 design. During dose expansion, there will be no PK week lead-in period. All participants will be treated until disease progression, unacceptable toxicity, participant withdrawal of consent or study termination.
The Mutanome Engineered RNA Immuno-Therapy (MERIT) study introduces a novel concept for Individualized Cancer Immunotherapy (IVAC®) to treat each patient with the relevant and immunogenic RNA vaccines for a given patient's tumor. The TNBC-MERIT trial uses two complementary strategies, the WAREHOUSE and the IVAC® MUTANOME concept, resulting in two custom-made IVAC® investigational medicinal products (IMPs) (IVAC_W_bre1_uID and IVAC_M_uID) for each individual patient.
This real-life Health Economics and Outcome Research (HEOR) study will enable to assess the impact of current therapies on quality of life (QoL), productivity loss and health care resource utilization in metastatic breast cancer (mBC). This prospective study will estimate patient-reported outcomes (PROs) and resource utilization data for mBC patients stratified according to treatment type, treatment line and disease status (progression vs. progression free) in a real-life setting. To estimate QoL, work productivity and health care resource utilization of post-menopausal patients with ER+/HER2- locally advanced or metastatic breast cancer in a real-life setting. The secondary objective is to estimate QoL and work productivity of mBC patients' caregivers. During the course of the study, data will be collected on quality of life and work productivity. Patients and caregivers will be asked to fill a set of questionnaires at their recruitment in the study, at 3 months and at 6 months after recruitment.