There are about 3753 clinical studies being (or have been) conducted in Hong Kong. The country of the clinical trial is determined by the location of where the clinical research is being studied. Most studies are often held in multiple locations & countries.
A Phase 2, Randomized, Single-Blind, Placebo-Controlled Study to Evaluate the Efficacy and Safety of TJ107 in Lympopenic Patients with Newly Diagnosed Glioblastoma Who Completed Standard Concurrent Chemoradiotherapy (CCRT)
Researchers in this study want to compare how well drug radium-223 dichloride (Xofigo) and new (novel) anti-hormonal (NAH) therapy work in participants with prostate gland cancer which has spread to the bone and progressed on or after one line of NAH therapy. Meanwhile researchers want to compare the safety of radium-223 dichloride and NAH therapy. Radium-223 dichloride is known as a radioactive drug that is taken up by bones after it is injected into the body. It works by giving off a type of radioactivity that travels a very short distance and kills the tumor cells that have spread to the bone without major effects to the healthy cells. It has been approved in many countries for the treatment of patients with prostate cancer which has spread to the bone. The NAH drugs used in this study will be either abiraterone acetate (Zytiga) (plus prednisone/prednisolone) or enzalutamide (Xtandi). Both of them are standard approved medications which are used in the treatment of advanced prostate cancer. Participants in this study will receive either Radium-223 dichloride or a NAH therapy. Radium-223 dichloride will be given as an infusion into one of the veins on Day 1 of each 4-week cycle for a total of up to 6 cycles. Oral NAH therapy will be given per the standard approved dose once daily until the disease has progressed. Participants will visit the hospital or clinic every 2 weeks for the first 6 cycles, and only on the first day of each cycle from cycle 7 and onwards. Observation for each participant will last for about 2 years in total. Blood and urine samples will be collected from the participants and participants will be asked to complete questionnaires about the well-being and the pain.
There have been lack of clinical studies on the role of drug treatment in patients who develop progressive disease with immune checkpoint inhibitors. Amongst HCC patients who become intolerant or refractory to sorafenib, cabozantinib has been shown by phase III clinical trial (CELESTIAL) to prolong the overall survival of patients, as compared to placebo. It is expected more patients will be treated with immune checkpoint inhibitors in future, hence it is clinically important to study the efficacy and toxicity of cabozantinib after treatment with immune checkpoint inhibitors. Further, both MET activation and upregulation of regulatory T cells are implicated in resistance mechanism to immune checkpoint inhibitors. Immuno-modulatory effects of cabozantinib have been described in vitro and in murine models for several cancers. Moreover, cabozantinib appears to exert its effect on regulatory T cells (Tregs) via the HGF/c-Met pathway, where this receptor signaling cascade mediates multiple immune cell functions. HGF was shown to suppress DC function and in turn induce Tregs (CD4+ CD25+ FoxP3) in a murine central nervous system (CNS) autoimmunity model. HGF cultured monocytes differentiate into monocytic cells that produce soluble factors that favor immune suppressive conditions ideal for tumor progression. Above immunomodulatory effects could enable cabozantinib to reverse the immunosuppressive phenotype in patients after failure with immune checkpoint inhibitors. The starting dose of cabozantinib of 60mg once daily in the current study is chosen in accordance with approved dose by FDA for treatment of advanced HCC
A study to evaluate the efficacy and safety of fenebrutinib on disability progression and relapse rate in adult participants with RMS. Eligible participants will be randomized 1:1 to either fenebrutinib or teriflunomide. Open-Label Extension (OLE) phase is contingent on a positive benefit-risk result in the Primary Analysis of the study.
The aims of this vaccine trial are: (1) to measure humoral and selected cellular immune responses to repeated influenza vaccination with Flublok, including these responses' associations with age, birth year, and prior vaccination history; (2) to identify the characteristics of study participants who are vaccinated but still become infected with influenza virus ("vaccine failures") and participants who have poor immune responses to vaccination; and (3) to predict how influenza vaccinations and infections shape immunity.
The ALIGN Study is a phase 3, double-blind, placebo-controlled study to compare the efficacy and safety of atrasentan to placebo in patients with IgA nephropathy (IgAN) at risk of progressive loss of renal function.
The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness and safety of relatlimab in combination with nivolumab in participants with advanced liver cancer who have never been treated with immuno-oncology therapy, after prior treatment with tyrosine kinase inhibitor therapy.
Nasopharyngeal cancer (NPC) is the most common head and neck cancer in South China and South East Asia. Worldwide, there are 80,000 incident cases and 50,000 deaths annually. In Hong Kong, NPC ranked as the tenth most common cancer in man. Up to 30% of NPC patients will develop recurrence or metastases after primary radiotherapy or chemoradiation. Platinum-based chemotherapy regimen has been the main stay of first line treatment for recurrent or metastatic NPC. However, the duration of response is short and currently there is no recommended standard second line chemotherapy. Axitinib is a highly potent and selective inhibitor of VEGF receptor. Selectively targeting a single growth factor receptor pathway provides the potential to rationally adjust dosages and combine drugs directed at specific parts of the pathway to minimize toxicity and achieve the optimum therapeutic benefit. In the phase 2 axitinib monotherapy in recurrent or metastatic NPC who failed at least one line of chemotherapy, the clinical benefit rate (CBR, complete response + partial response + stable disease) was 78.4% at 3 months but decreased to 43.2% at 6 months. However, the confirmed objective response rate (ORR) by RECIST was only 2.7% and unconfirmed ORR of 18.9%, with no complete response.Recently, the promising clinical activity of immune check point inhibitors has been demonstrated in NPC. The ORR was 25.9% (7 partial responses out of 27 patients) for single agent pembrolizumab, and 20.5% (including 1 complete response and 7 partial responses out of 44 patients) for single agent nivolumab,9 in recurrent or metastatic NPC who failed at least first line chemotherapy. The combination of axitinib and avelumab has been studied in renal cell carcinoma (RCC). Based on the above promising and positive results in renal cell carcinoma (RCC) and head and neck squamous cell carcinomas (HNSCC), the investigators hypothesize that the combination of axitinib and avelumab in the second line setting of NPC will achieving a more complete, deep and durable response than either agent alone, without a significant increase in toxicity. This is an open-label, single arm, phase 2 clinical trial evaluating the activity and safety of the combination of axitinib and avelumab in recurrent or metastatic NPC patients who failed at least one line of platinum-based chemotherapy.
This study investigates the diagnostic performance of an AI algorithm in the detection of COVID-19 pneumonia on chest radiographs.
This Phase III, randomized, double-blind, placebo-controlled, multicenter study will evaluate the efficacy and safety of giredestrant combined with palbociclib compared with letrozole combined with palbociclib in patients with estrogen receptor (ER)-positive, human epidermal growth factor receptor-2 (HER2)-negative locally advanced (recurrent or progressed) or metastatic breast cancer.