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Filter by:The purpose of this study is to determine if NIF fluorescent imaging is an effective approach to detect the gross ovarian tumoral tissues and peritoneal implants in Ovarian cancer patients.
Background: - Adrenocortical carcinoma (ACC) is a rare tumor of the adrenal gland. Few people who develop this disease live more than 5 years after being diagnosed. Those whose tumors have spread inside their abdomen may have an especially poor outcome. In these cases, traditional chemotherapy is not very effective. One possible new treatment is aggressive surgery with heated chemotherapy. This type of treatment has been more effective for other types of cancer in the abdomen. Researchers want to see this if approach can improve the outcomes of people with ACC. Objectives: - To test the safety and effectiveness of surgery and heated chemotherapy for ACC. Eligibility: - Individuals at least 18 years of age who have advanced ACC. Design: - Participants will be screened with a physical exam and medical history. Blood samples will be collected. Heart function tests will be given. Imaging studies will be used to locate the surgical sites before the operation. - Participants will have surgery to remove ACC tumor tissue. After the tumors have been removed, they will have heated chemotherapy with cisplatin. The heat may help weaken any remaining cancer cells and make them easier to destroy. It will also focus the treatment on the tumor sites, rather than the whole body. - Participants will recover in the hospital for several days after surgery. They will have regular follow-up visits to monitor the outcome of the surgery.
Hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) is the 6th most common cancer and the third most frequent cause of cancer death worldwide. Hepatic resection (HR) has been the standard treatment modality for HCC aiming at clinical cure. In both Europe and Unit States proposed guidelines for HCC, HR was recommend only for patients with a single HCC lesion and preserved liver function . Unfortunately, only 10%-30% of HCCs are amenable to such "curative" surgical resection at the time of diagnosis, because of tumor multifocality, portal vein invasion, and underlying advanced liver cirrhosis . Alternatively, transarterial chemoembolization (TACE) has become the most popular modality for palliative treatment for the other patients. However, the long term outcomes were generally poor for HCC patients treated with TACE. Recently, sorafenib has shown some promises in improvement of 3-month survival among patients with advanced HCC. It is claimed that sorafenib has become the standard of care for patients advanced HCC. Thus, the purpose of this study was to prospectively compare the effectiveness of sorafenib combined with TACE with that of TACE alone in the treatment of unresectable HCC .
INVESTIGATIONAL PRODUCT: TLC388 (Lipotecan*) *Lipotecan is a drug product of TLC388 HCl. PHASE OF DEVELOPMENT: Phase II No. OF PATIENTS: Approximately 40 (Stage I: 15 evaluable patients, Stage II: 25 evaluable patients) STUDY OBJECTIVES: Primary • To evaluate non-progression disease (non-PD) rate at the end of cycle 6 Secondary - To evaluate progression free survival (PFS) - To evaluate overall survival (OS) - To evaluate the duration of non-PD - To evaluate objective response rate (ORR; where ORR= CR+PR) and duration - To evaluate the safety profile of TLC388 - To evaluate change in health-related quality of life (HRQOL) at the end of cycle 6 STUDY DESIGN: This is a Phase II, open-label, single-arm, multi-centre study to evaluate TLC388 monotherapy in patients with locally advanced and/or metastatic renal cell carcinoma (RCC).
This trial aims to study the safety, the local control, and the overall survival of S-1 combined with radiotherapy for patients with esophageal squamous cell carcinoma. 105 patients will be recruited into this trial.
The purpose of this study is to find out whether it is better to receive a new drug, BBI608, or better to receive no further treatment for colon or rectal cancer. To do this, half of the patients in this study will get BBI608 and the other half will receive a placebo (a substance that is designed not to do anything).
This is a randomized, multi-center, open-labeled, phase III study in patients with advanced HCC. A total of 338 patients will be randomized (1:1) into one of the two treatment arms, to receive sorafenib with (Arm Combination-treatment; Arm C) or without (Arm Sorafenib alone treatment; Arm S) cTACE. All the patients will be initially given sorafenib within 72 hours after the randomization. Treatment should continue until the criteria for treatment discontinuation are met. After the treatment period, patients will undergo follow up for survival every 12 weeks (±7 days) from the last dose, and the survival follow up will be performed for at least 1.5 years after the last patient's last treatment.
Although liver resection, liver transplantation, a-interferon, Transarterial Chemo Embolization (TACE), percutaneous ethanol injection (PEI), Percutaneous microwave coagulation therapy (PMCT), Radiofrequency ablation (RFA) provide options to treat patients with HCC, the high recurrence rate of mid-late stage liver cancer still exists. The safety of autologous Immune Cell Therapy in Primary Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC) Patients Following Resection and TACE Therapy will be evaluated.
A multicenter, randomized, Phase 2 trial to study the effectiveness and feasibility of association of trastuzumab with combination chemotherapy in advanced or metastatic bladder cancer patients. Combining monoclonal antibody therapy with combination chemotherapy may improve treatment efficacy on tumours overexpressed HER 2.
The purpose of this study is to test an investigational combination of drugs for bile duct or gallbladder cancers. Gemcitabine and cisplatin are two forms of chemotherapy commonly used in combination to treat bile duct and gallbladder cancers. The investigators are looking to improve treatment results. They will attempt to do so by adding the drug MEK162 to the treatment plan. MEK162 acts by blocking a protein called MEK 1/2 which helps cancer cells grow and divide. This study will help answer the question of whether MEK162 is a helpful drug in patients with bile duct or gallbladder cancers when given with gemcitabine and cisplatin.