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Filter by:Bevacizumab may have a better effect on brain necrosis caused by radiotherapy.This randomized trial aims to investigate whether bevacizumab may alleviate radiation-induced brain necrosis in patients with nasopharyngeal carcinoma. The effect will be compared with outcomes in patients receiving steroid therapy.
This is an open-label, uncontrolled, multicenter phase II clinical trial. The purpose of this study is to evaluate acute toxicity and efficacy of cisplatin and 5-Fu combined with nimotuzumab in patients with untreated metastatic nasopharyngeal carcinoma.
The main purpose of this observational study with Docetaxel is to determine the number of treatment cycles and the quantity of Doce onkovis needed therefore under the special circumstance of ambulant chemotherapy. onkovis aims an economical utilization of the chemotherapeutics.The provision with adapted packaging sizes as to decrease the excess quantity to be discarded follows also this objective. Secondary objectives are the evaluation of the safety and tolerability of Doce onkovis. To this purpose data regarding co medications and adverse events are also collected.
Sorafenib and pazopanib are both effective and promising treatments for advanced Renal Cell Carcinoma (RCC). Both drugs are registered for this indication. No prospective comparative data in advanced RCC (or other indications) have been published. A search in the clinicaltrials.gov database did not reveal any planned or ongoing studies. As sequential therapy is now the standard of treatment for advanced RCC it is important to evaluate in clinical trials what the value of different sequential strategies is. This needs to be done every time new agents are introduced into the treatment armamentarium. As there are no data yet on the sequential use of sorafenib followed by pazopanib or vice versa, this sequence, however, will most certainly be used in daily practice, it is required to examine efficacy and safety of this sequential approach in a clinical trial in a randomized setting. Therefore, the investigators have designed an open randomized study in patients not previously treated for advanced RCC. Suitable patients will be randomized (1:1) in 2 groups.
Esophageal cancer (EC) is the eighth most common cause of cancer-related death in the worldwide. Systemic chemotherapy in patients with metastatic EC has limited effectiveness, resulting in a median survival of 8 months to 10months. The low activity and brief duration of benefit for chemotherapy to palliate advanced disease make clear need to identify new active agents. Epidermal growth factor receptor (EGFR) is often over-expressed, and have been related to poor prognosis in patients with EC. The association between EGFR-activated signaling pathways and tumor cell survival are well documented in many studies. Some EGFR tyrosine kinase inhibitors (TKIs) already showed clinical efficacy against EC. A study with erlotinib showed objective response rate of 15% (2 of 13 patients), but activity was limited to squamous cell type.8 In another study, thirty patients with malignant solid tumor were treated with BIBW2992, irreversible inhibitor of EGFR and HER2, and one of four EC patients achieved partial response. PF-00299804 is a second-generation quinazoline-based irreversible pan-HER inhibitor. In preclinical studies, PF-00299804 has much lower IC50 values than gefitinib in cell lines engineered to express EGFRvIII mutations (1.2 nM versus 2,700 nM) and produces tumor growth inhibition in gefitinib-resistant xenografts. PF-00299804 reportedly have clinical anti-tumor activity in patients with non-small cell lung cancer and head and neck squamous cell carcinoma with manageable toxicity. The aim of current trial is to evaluate the antitumor efficacy and safety profile of PF-00299804 and to identify biomarker to predict the tumor response to PF-00299804.
This phase I clinical trial studies the side effects of vaccine therapy and cyclophosphamide in treating patients with stage II-III breast cancer or stage II-IV ovarian, primary peritoneal or fallopian tube cancer. Vaccines made from peptides may help the body build an effective immune response to kill tumor cells. Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as cyclophosphamide, 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 vaccine therapy and cyclophosphamide may kill more tumor cells.
This phase II trial studies how well Akt inhibitor MK2206 works in treating patients with progressive, recurrent, or metastatic adenoid cyst carcinoma (cancer). Akt inhibitor MK2206 may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking some of the enzymes needed for cell growth.
In this phase II multicenter study, the investigators aim to evaluate the efficacy and tolerability of a novel taxane-cabazitaxel as single agent second-line chemotherapy for metastatic urothelial carcinoma.
This study is assessing the combination of well known cytotoxics with a novel anti-cancer agent that could be administered as monotherapy without renal toxicity in patients with renal impairment presenting with advanced or metastatic urothelial carcinoma previously treated with a platinum-based regimen. The intent of this study is to clarify the benefit/risk ratio of the two most promising associations of cytotoxics including the novel therapeutic agent, vinflunine: vinflunine-gemcitabine and vinflunine-carboplatin.
This primary purpose of this study is to estimate the maximum tolerated dose (MTD) and/or recommended dose for expansion (RDE) and preferred dosing schedule of LJM716 given by IV infusion in adult patients with squamous cell carcinoma of head and neck, or esophagus, or HER2 overexpressing metastatic breast cancer or gastric cancer