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Filter by:This phase III ALCHEMIST trial tests the addition of pembrolizumab to usual chemotherapy for the treatment of stage IIA, IIB, IIIA or IIIB non-small cell lung cancer that has been removed by surgery. Immunotherapy with monoclonal antibodies, such as pembrolizumab, may help the body's immune system attack the cancer, and may interfere with the ability of tumor cells to grow and spread. Chemotherapy drugs, such as cisplatin, pemetrexed, carboplatin, gemcitabine hydrochloride, and paclitaxel, work in different ways to stop the growth of tumor cells, either by killing the cells, by stopping them from dividing, or by stopping them from spreading. Giving pembrolizumab with usual chemotherapy may help increase survival times in patients with stage IIA, IIB, IIIA or IIIB non-small cell lung cancer.
The malignant tumor at the thoracic entrance is difficult to be surgically removed, and radiotherapy or radiotherapy based comprehensive treatment is often chosen at the initial diagnosis. However, for patients with recurrence after radiotherapy, there is basically no ideal local treatment.The Radioactive i-125 Seed Implantation (RISI) therapy is characterized by high dose within the tumor target area and low dose to surrounding normal tissues, and its radiation dose rate is low, which theoretically benefits the protection of normal tissues and is more suitable for the salvage treatment of recurrent lesions after radiotherapy.3 d printing template technology is through the advance of the preoperative plan design and optimization, to achieve better avoid endanger organs, template of individualized and human body surface after laminating, registration accuracy, its guide pillar to precise control the direction of the needle, the present data show that in the template with CT guided by solid tumors as well had significantly higher accuracy, as the actual target dose of basic postoperative can reach the design request of the preoperative planning, so the application of 3 d printing template helps to further improve the operation efficiency and safety, also has potential promotion effect to curative effect. The purpose of this study is: (1) Observe the efficacy, toxicity and side effects of 3d-printed template assisted ct-guided RISI in the treatment of recurrent metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of thoracic inlet lymph node after radiotherapy, and evaluate its safety and effectiveness; (2) to explore the relationship between the efficacy, toxicity and side effects of relapsed metastatic squamous cell carcinoma of thoracic inlet lymph node after radiotherapy with different RISI doses;(3)the related influencing factors affecting the effect/toxicity of RISI in the treatment of relapsed lymph node metastatic squamous cell carcinoma at the thoracic inlet after radiotherapy were analyzed.
This study will investigate OC-001 as monotherapy, and in combination with an anti-Programmed Cell Death Protein-1 (PD-1) or anti-Programmed Cell Death Ligand-1 (PD-L1) Antibody inhibitor, in various cancer types
A single-institution, randomize controlled trial is to be held to evaluate the correlation between blood supply in the gastic conduit and the incidence of anastomotic fistula during radical operation for esophageal squamous cell carcinoma by fluorescence angiography.
This is a phase II, open label, two-centered study for evaluation of the addition of nivolumab and cetuximab after chemoradiation as a neoadjuvant treatment for locally advanced esophageal squamous cell carcinoma patients. Subjects must have received no prior treatment for esophageal cancer (chemotherapy, radiotherapy or surgery) and no prior treatment with checkpoint inhibitors. Eligible subjects will receive induction chemotherapy with cetuximab for a period of 4 weeks, chemoradiation with cetuximab for a period of 6 weeks, 3 cycles of immunotherapy (nivolumab + cetuximab) for a period of 6 weeks, and will undergo surgery at the end of the treatment.
Compare patients' feelings in terms of swallowing ability assessed by the overall score of MD Anderson Dysphagia Inventory (MDADI) 2 years after starting treatment between patients who have been treated with IMRT and those who were treated by transoral surgery for a squamous cell carcinoma of the early stage oropharynx.
Known risk factors inducing squamous cell carcinomas of the head and neck are tabacco and alcohol intake. However, the incidence of human papillomavirus (HPV) related oropharyngeal carcinomas is increasing. It is known that HPV+ and HPV- tumors have a different reaction to (chemo)radiotherapy. The exact mechanisms underlying these differences is not yet known but might be caused by changes in vascularity. Therefore the vasculature is imaged with the help of a study specific Gallium-68-DOTA-(RGD)2 PET/CT scan and a CT perfusion scan.
This phase II trial studies how well radiation therapy works for the treatment of gastrointestinal cancer that are spreading to other places in the body (metastatic). Radiation therapy uses high energy x-rays to kill cancer cells and shrink tumors. This trial is being done to determine if giving radiation therapy to patients who are being treated with immunotherapy and whose cancers are progressing (getting worse) can slow or stop the growth of their cancers. It may also help researchers determine if giving radiation therapy to one tumor can stimulate the immune system to attack other tumors in the body that are not targeted by the radiation therapy.
The goal of this randomized phase II study is a formal comparison of radiotherapy versus trans-oral surgery as the primary treatment of HPV-negative patients with early-stage oropharyngeal carcinoma.
Only about 30 percent of cancer patients have a clinical benefit upon cetuximab administration. Pilot studies in colorectal and head and neck cancer patients have suggested that cetuximab pharmacokinetics (PK), i.e. clearance values, could impact on clinical outcomes such as survival. Determining cetuximab plasma clearance requires sophisticated PK modeling using population approaches, thus making it difficult to implement in routine clinical practice. In addition, all the preliminary studies with cetuximab were based upon Elisa determination of cetuximab plasma levels, an analytical method that fails to meet the requirements of daily practice in laboratories performing therapeutic drug monitoring. This pilot study aimed at evaluating the mass spec method analytical performance as part of a " real life " study, evaluating the inter-patient variability of exposure levels in head and neck cancer patients, and establishing a putative link between those exposure levels and clinical outcome. Results from 25 patients fully confirmed the analytical performance of the mass spec method (e.g., lack of matrix effect, acceptable sensitivity to monitor trough levels, lack of impact of sampling processing or freezing/thawing cycles). In addition, a large inter-individual variability (Superior at 50 percent) was observed, both in the peak concentrations (Cmax) and in trough levels (Cmin). Most interestingly, despite the limited number of patients enrolled, a statistically significant association was shown between exposure levels (i.e. calculated AUC) and clinical outcome (DCR). This difference was even more significant on Cmin, thus suggesting that simple trough levels monitoring could help to predict efficacy. Further analysis on survival showed that although not statistically significant, a trend towards longer both progression-free survival and overall survival was observed in the subgroup of patients with higher trough levels. In particular, 3-year survival was 29 percent and 0 percent in the subgroups with high and low trough concentrations, respectively (unpublished data). Beyond tumoral factors, these preliminary data suggest that cetuximab Cmin levels could be a predictive marker of therapeutic efficacy and that simple therapeutic drug monitoring could help to forecast clinical outcome or enable dosage adaptation.