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Filter by:The research team will develop an intraoperative handheld device for assessing surgical margins during Mohs surgery. The device technology is based on multimodal optical spectroscopy (MMS), combining three optical spectroscopy techniques into one device. The researchers will first acquire proof of concept MMS measurements within the Mohs surgery suite immediately after surgical excision and prior to histological processing. MMS measurements will be acquired directly on the patient from the NMSC excision site. The final outcome of this study will result in the sensitivity and specificity of MMS compared to histopathology during Mohs surgery. These results will allow for the estimation of the potential benefit of an intraoperative margin assessment technique.
The purpose of this study is to preliminarily evaluate the safety and efficacy of CAR-T cell immunotherapy for GPC3 positive hepatocellular carcinoma.
The purpose of this study is to investigate the safety and efficacy of intratumoral REOLYSIN® therapy alone and in combination with standard neoadjuvant gemcitabine and cisplatin in muscle-invasive bladder cancer.
This trial is a phase II, single arm, open-label, single center study to assess a reduced-intensity conditioning regimen, bone marrow transplantation and high dose PTCy in recipients of a partial liver allograft from a Human Leukocyte Antigen (HLA)-matched or -haploidentical living related donor in patients with HCC. The primary objective of this trial is to characterize recurrence-free survival at 1 year following bone marrow transplantation among recipients of prior partial liver transplantation from the same donor.
This pilot clinical trial studies how well arsenic trioxide and itraconazole work in treating patients with basal cell cancer that has spread to other places in the body and usually cannot be cured or controlled with treatment. Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as arsenic trioxide, 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. Itraconazole may help treat fungal infections in patients with basal cell cancer. Giving arsenic trioxide with itraconazole may work better in treating basal cell cancer.
This is an open label pilot study evaluating the pharmacodynamics and safety of single agent olaparib administered at 300mg bid (twice a day) for 14 days orally in patients with human papillomavirus (HPV) -positive and human papillomavirus (HPV)-negative head and neck squamous cell carcinoma (HNSCC)
This pilot clinical trial compares the imaging results of contrast-enhanced ultrasound to contrast-enhanced magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) or computed tomography (CT), the current clinical standard, in predicting treatment response in patients with kidney cancer undergoing cryosurgery (a procedure in which an extremely cold liquid or an instrument called a cryoprobe is used to freeze and destroy abnormal tissue). Using contrast-enhanced ultrasound that does not involve a dye may help patients avoid side effects from a dye that is usually used in MRI or CT and may help doctors measure blood flow and determine whether the cryosurgery procedure treated the kidney tumor.
The treatment of advanced ovarian cancer is based on the combination of chemotherapy based on platinum salt and surgery whose quality is the major prognostic factor. A meta-analysis of retrospective series had shown that for every 10% increase in the complete cytoreduction rates were increased by 5.5% overall survival time (Markman et al, 2001). Currently, it is recognized that the best chance of survival conferred to patients whose initial surgical residue is zero (Harter et al, 2009). However, even if macroscopically complete surgery and whatever the type of systemic chemotherapy, peritoneal recurrence remains high for more than 75%. To reducing it of recurrence, a therapeutic approach is to administer chemotherapy intraperitoneally. The intraperitoneal chemotherapy consists to administer the drug directly into the peritoneal cavity. Alberts et al, 1996 and Armstrong et al, 2006 compared the efficacy in terms of survival of an intraperitoneal chemotherapy according to this method with a conventional systemic chemotherapy. Alberts reported a significant improvement in the median overall survival. Armstrong shows in addition a decreased risk of recurrence. It must be remembered that: - The establishment of an intra-abdominal catheter does not always ensure complete flow of drugs into the peritoneal cavity (major postoperative adhesions). - There may be problems of catheters becoming blocked and requiring local treatment; these problems can cause abdominal pain whose care is difficult. Thus almost half of patients fail to get all six courses of intraperitoneal chemotherapy. Thus, the investigators propose to estimate the flow of intraperitoneal chemotherapy with IP peritoneal scintigraphy, using a radiotracer (nanocis®). The investigators hypothesize that the movement of colloids in peritoneal cavity is similar to the circulation of chemotherapy within the peritoneal cavity (From Forni et al, 1993, Varia et al, 2003, Young et al, 2003, Dawson et al, 2011). The accumulation of radiotracer will be more correlated with abdominal pain sites described by the patient as well as peritoneal recurrence sites found during monitoring.
Given that up-regulation of the Wnt pathway has been identified as having a significant role in carcinogenesis in advanced head and neck squamous cell carcinoma, the investigator believes that inhibition of Porcupine via WNT974 will result in tumor control hence improvement in disease free and overall survival in these patients with a tolerable toxicity profile. As suggested by pre-clinical models, patients with a tumor harboring a Notch receptor (any of the four) loss of function mutation may have a greater response rate to treatment with WNT974. The investigator aims to address this question by administration of single agent WNT974 and following response radiologically along with close clinical follow up to monitor toxicities.
This phase I trial studies the side effects and best dose of talazoparib and heat shock protein (HSP)90 inhibitor AT13387 when given together in treating patients with solid tumors that have spread to other places in the body (metastatic) or ovarian, fallopian tube, primary peritoneal, or hormone negative breast cancer that have come back after a period of improvement (recurrent). Talazoparib and HSp90 inhibitor AT13387 may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking some enzymes that are need for cell growth. HSp90 inhibitor AT1338 may also help talazoparib work better by making tumor cells more sensitive to the drug.