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Filter by:The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effect of blocking the blood vessels to the tumor in your liver with small beads alone (Bead Block) versus blocking them with the same bead that contains and releases doxorubicin (a chemotherapy agent). The reason for the study is to see if adding doxorubicin kills more tumor than would be killed by just blocking the blood supplying the tumor. The chemotherapy, doxorubicin, has been used for many years to treat patients with cancer. This procedure to block the blood vessels is called embolization. Embolization is a common treatment for patients with liver cancer who cannot have surgery. The investigators are comparing the standard treatment (using the small beads alone) with another that should be at least as good, but possibly better (with the addition of the drug, doxorubicin). There is no guarantee that the new treatment is better and it is possible that there might be more side effects (related to the doxorubicin) than what is seen with the standard treatment.
To learn whether FDG PET/CT and DCE MRI are better predictors of response to therapy than the current standard of care (CT or MRI).
The goal of this study is to investigate the safety and feasibility of treating patients with advanced hepatocellular carcinoma with a noninvasive device administering low level of amplitude-modulated electromagnetic fields.
The primary objective of the study was to demonstrate overall survival improvement for aflibercept + docetaxel compared to docetaxel + placebo as second line treatment for participants with locally advanced or metastatic non-small cell lung cancer (NSCLC). The secondary objectives were to compare other efficacy parameters, to assess the overall safety of the two treatment arms, to assess the pharmacokinetics of intravenous (IV) aflibercept in this participant population and to determine immunogenicity of IV aflibercept in all participants.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety and efficacy of a continuous hepatic arterial infusion combination therapy with OPC-18 and 5-FU versus BST in patients with highly advanced hepatocellular carcinoma for which resection therapy or local therapy is inapplicable due to advanced vascular invasion.
This study was conducted in order to evaluate the efficacy and safety of the cancer vaccine IMA901 and GM-CSF as adjuvant in the treatment of advanced renal cell carcinoma. Patients received vaccination with GM-CSF followed by IMA901 during the study period of 9 months. Patients received pre-treatment with a single i.v. infusion of cyclophosphamide prior to the first vaccination.
This phase II trial studies how well giving sunitinib malate works in treating patients with iodine-refractory recurrent or metastatic thyroid cancer. Sunitinib malate may stop the growth of tumor cells by blocking some of the enzymes needed for cell growth or by blocking blood flow to the tumor
We hypothesize that combination of tegafur/uracil(UFUR) and thalidomide, both of which have been shown to be active in some HCC patients,may be a highly useful regimen for the treatment of advanced HCC. There are several rationales underlying this combination. First, anti-angiogenesis therapy may improve the efficacy of chemotherapy by normalizing the abnormal vasculature in tumors, and thus improving the delivery of chemotherapeutic agents to the tumor cells. Second, chemotherapeutic drugs given in a low-dose, un interrupted, and protracted way can induce anti-tumor effect through the anti-angiogenesis activity (so-called"metronomic chemotherapy"). The efficacy of metronomic chemotherapy can be suppressed by VEGF/VEGFR signaling pathways and thus can bo further potentiated by agents blocking those survival signals of endothelial cell. In this regard, tegafur/uracil appears to be a good candidate for metronomic chemotherapy because tegafur/uracil and its metabolites bave already been shown to inhibit angiogenesis in several pre-clinical models.
A prototype colonoscope with an extra passively bending distal section has been developed by Olympus Japan (ref. publications). The present study (2006-2007) is testing refinements of this function.
Phase 2 Study of ABT-869 in Advanced Hepatocellular Carcinoma (HCC)