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Filter by:Several investigations suggest neural stem cells located in the subventricular region play an active role in promoting or even initiating cortical malignant glioma growth. Although normal appearing on neuroimaging, surgical specimens taken from this region show it contains malignant glioma stem-like cells. Some retrospective analyses found patients who received radiation therapy to this region during standard of care treatments lived longer than patients who did not. The investigator's study hypothesizes (1) stereotactic radiosurgery of cancer stem-like cells in these regions will be well tolerated during standard of care therapy, (2) focused stereotactic radiosurgery will be more effective in destroying cancer stem cells than conventional radiation therapy, and (3) treatment will improve malignant glioma survival.
The objective of this study is to investigate tolerability, safety, pharmacokinetics (PK) and efficacy of oral OKN-007 in participants with recurrent high-grade glioma.
This clinical trial increases radiation to areas of the brain considered to be at risk for cancer. The at-risk areas are identified by a biological MRI scan. The study will look at side effects of the radiation and overall survival.
Glioblastoma (GBM) is the most common primary brain cancer in adults. Despite surgery, conventional radiotherapy, and chemotherapy, the average survival for GBM is 15-16 months. Although additional chemoradiotherapy has been shown to increase survival, the majority recur at the original location. Despite many efforts to improve the local control by improving surgical techniques, increasing the radiotherapy dose or adding newer chemotherapy agents, these attempts have failed to show a survival benefit or an improved cancer control. People who are not participating in a study are usually treated with surgery followed by radiation (6 weeks duration) together with temozolomide (chemotherapy drug) followed by temozolomide alone. For patients who receive this usual treatment approach for this cancer, about 4 out of 100 are free of cancer growth five years later. Because GBM invades the surrounding normal brain, this study is looking into the possibility of minimizing invasion by starting treatment using the combination of radiotherapy and chemotherapy prior to surgery. This approach is an experimental form of treatment and the diagnosis is based exclusively on imaging and not on histology of the tumour tissue, and there is a possibility that your tumor may not be a GB but of other origins.
This is a study to determine the efficacy, safety and clinical benefit (how well the drugs works), of the pharmaceutical compositions in Nasal Spray NST-4G for the treatment of brain tumors( Recurrent Glioblastoma, Gliosarcoma,Anaplastic Gliomas, Previously Treated). All drugs target the inhibition of the growth factors and neo-angiogenesis as one the main reasons for the growth of the tumor. The purpose of the Nasal Spray NST-4G study is to determine the safety and tolerability in order to establish the best dose level to be used in future studies.
This pilot study aims to evaluate the feasibility of close glucose monitoring and management of patients (targeting fasting and pre-meal glucose of 4-7 mmol/L) using state-of-the-art flash glucose monitoring (FGM) technology. The glycemic intervention will be personalized based on individual blood glucose levels. Although the glycemic interventions used in this study include standard medications and methods of glucose monitoring used for patients with diabetes, this pilot study will specifically evaluate the feasibility of using these approaches in patients with GBM, appreciating their additional medical, functional and social challenges.
The purpose of this study is to to describe the effect of a palliative regimen consisting of Laser Interstitial Thermal Therapy (LITT) on distress, quality of life (QOL), neurocognition, days in the hospital, patient disposition, and readmission in newly diagnosed World Health Organization (WHO) grade IV malignant glioma (glioblastoma (GBM) or gliosarcoma) patients unable to undergo broader surgical resection. The primary objective is to assess changes in the National Comprehensive Cancer Network (NCCN) distress thermometer in newly diagnosed WHO grade IV malignant glioma patients who receive LITT. *Please note: This study was originally designed as a interventional device study studying the effect of the LITT procedure; however, it was re-designed as an observational study in which the patient population being studied is approved to receive the LITT procedure.
This phase II trial studies the side effects of autologous dendritic cells pulsed with tumor lysate antigen vaccine and nivolumab and to see how well they work in treating patients with glioblastoma that has come back. Vaccines made from a person's tumor cells may help the body build an effective immune response to kill tumor cells. Monoclonal antibodies, such as nivolumab, may interfere with the ability of tumor cells to grow and spread. Giving dendritic cell-autologous lung tumor vaccine and nivolumab may work better in treating patients with glioblastoma.
This clinical trial studies how well delayed fludeoxyglucose F-18 (18F-FDG) positron emission tomography (PET)/computed tomography (CT) works in improving visualization of brain tumors in patients with glioblastoma. Radiotracers such as 18F-FDG are highly taken up by tumors in the brain and are visualized using PET/CT. Increasing the interval of time between 18F-FDG administration and PET/CT scan may improve the visualization of brain tumors in patients with glioblastoma.
Glioblastoma (GBM) comprises about 16% of all malignancies of the nervous system and over 50% of all gliomas. Standard of care for newly-diagnosed GBM is a combination of surgical debulking followed by concurrent radiotherapy and chemotherapy with temozolomide. Efforts to improve second-line therapy in GBM have met with only marginal success and there is a large unmet medical need for new therapies. G-202 (mipsagargin) is an example of prodrug chemotherapy. It is activated by Prostate Specific Membrane Antigen (PSMA), which is expressed by some cancer cells and in the blood vessels of most solid tumors, including GBM, but not by normal cells or blood vessels in normal tissue. It is believed that activation of the prodrug G-202 will allow the drug to kill cancer cells. This study will evaluate the activity, safety and CNS exposure of G-202 in patients with PSMA-positive recurrent or progressive GMB receiving G-202 by intravenous infusion on three consecutive days of a 28-day cycle.