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Filter by:Objectives: To evaluate the safety and effectiveness of cell therapy using Precision Cell Immunotherapy to treat Advanced Gastric Cancer. Eligibility: Individuals greater than or equal to 18 years of age and less than or equal to 65 years of age who have been diagnosed with Advanced Gastric Cancer.
This is an open-label, non-randomized, Phase I study of epacadostat (INCB024360) alone and in combination with pembrolizumab with chemotherapy and pembrolizumab without chemotherapy in participants with advanced solid tumors. The primary objective of the trial is to evaluate the safety and tolerability of epacadostat administered alone and in combination with pembrolizumab with and without chemotherapy. With protocol amendment 02 (26-April-2019), treatment with epacadostat was stopped in the "Epacad+Pembro+Cisplatin+Pemetrexed", "Epacad+Pembro+Carboplatin+Pemetrexed", and "Epacad+Pembro+Carboplatin+Paclitaxel" study arms.
Patients with myeloproliferative neoplasms Philadelphia chromosome negative (MPNsPh1-) such as Essential thrombocytosis (ET), Polycythemia vera (PV) and Primary Myelofibrosis (PMF) have a higher risk of arterial or deep-vein thrombosis. This is responsible for a significant increase in mortality (up to 31% of increase in thrombosis risk in ET). Cellular inflation and blood hyperviscosity, resulting from these diseases, fail to account for these thromboses, as more than 50% of thrombotic complications happen under adapted antineoplastic drug treatment. These last years, cellular microparticles (MPs) have been shown to play a major role in thrombogenesis. MPs are generated by apoptosis or the activation of malignant cells, platelets, endothelial cells or monocytes. They are fragments of plasma membrane, smaller than 1 µm, rich in phosphatidylserine, which can express the tissue factor and serve as support for the coagulation factors. Increase in the plasma concentration of procoagulant platelet microparticles has been demonstrated in other thrombotic diseases (acute coronary syndrome, disseminated intravascular coagulation DIC, etc.). The working hypothesis is that platelet microparticles are involved in the hypercoagulability of MPNs patients.
This pilot phase I trial studies the side effects of atezolizumab in treating patients with cancer following adoptive cell transfer. Immunotherapy with monoclonal antibodies, such as atezolizumab, may help the body's immune system attack the cancer, and may interfere with the ability of tumor cells to grow and spread.
A first empirical evidence on the difficulties of observance of morphine in cancer patients invited a multidisciplinary team to initiate an innovative quality approach. It shows the lack of transcript of a comprehensive care causing a problem for monitoring actions undertaken for the relief of pain. In addition, two exploratory studies targeting the expectations and needs of the Patient Therapeutic Education (E.T.P) receiving strong opioids. The E.T.P, public health priority, provides a framework for action and improving care. In oncology, the involvement of the patient in pain relief and management of opioids represents an axis of intervention more appropriate. Yet, it is not found in literature. In our department, we conduct an experimental therapeutic education program type "caratif" and a nurse consultation FTE receiving opioids on the model of nursing "care" of J. Watson (humanist emphasis promoting interpersonal teaching-learning mobilizing the patient experience). The ETP folder and its tools have been continuously validated with patients. The heart of the educational process is in the patient's complex path neat oncology and relies on interaction and creativity between patient and caregivers.
Primary brain cancer kills up to 10,000 Americans a year. These brain tumors are typically treated by surgery, radiation therapy and chemotherapy, either individually or in combination. Present therapies are inadequate, as evidenced by the low 5-year survival rate for brain cancer patients, with median survival at approximately 12 months. Glioma is the most common form of primary brain cancer, afflicting approximately 7,000 patients in the United States each year. These highly malignant cancers remain a significant unmet clinical need in oncology. GBM often has a high expression EFGR (Epidermal Growth Factor Receptor) which is blocked by Cetuximab (CTX). The investigators have recently completed a separate Phase I clinical trial using superselective intra-arterial cerebral infusion (SIACI) of CTX after blood brain barrier disruption (BBBD) for recurrent GBM (Chakraborty et al, in revision, Journal of Neurooncology). The investigators found that intra-arterial infusion of CTX is well tolerated with few adverse effects. The investigators hypothesize that in patients with newly diagnosed GBM, repeated SIACI of this drug after BBBD will be safe and efficacious for our patients when combined with standard chemoradiation (STUPP protocol). This trial will be a non-randomized open label Phase I/II clinical trial. In addition to standard chemotherapy and radiation therapy (STUPP protocol) the patient will be given CTX intra-arterially after BBBD for a total of three doses at approximately post surgery days 30, 120 and 210.
There are a few studies regarding Sessile Serrated Lesions (SSL). They are recently identified as precancerous lesions. Yet, digestive tract serrated lesions would be part of a new colic carcinogenesis way : the serrated tumor way. Evolution from polyp to cancer would be faster than through the usual adenoma to cancer way. It would be then responsible of a lot of "missed" lesions or interval cancer. The missed SSL rate is estimated at between 27% and 59%. Current diagnosis methods show weakness to identify those SSL. In order to improve their detection, the investigators dispose of several coloration techniques. Indigo carmine chromoendoscopy enhance neoplastic lesion detection as part of the hereditary rectal carcinoma screening. NBI electronic coloration, which is faster and easier has not shown any efficacy on the adenoma detection rate, except for patients with Lynch syndrome. The objective is to better describe the SSL endoscopic semiology (detection and characterization) and to establish standards for the endoscopic techniques in order to improve the colonoscopy diagnosis quality. The investigators propose to evaluate 2 fundamental endoscopic techniques (Narrow Band Imaging (NBI) and indigo carmine), widely used for other indications, in comparison with the White Light technique (WLI). Therefore, the investigators propose a prospective, observational, multicentric cohort study in order to 1) define SSL endoscopic various aspects 2) establish which technique (white light, Narrow Band Imaging, indigo carmine chromoendoscopy) is the best to diagnose SSL, namely detection and characterization 3) evaluate the multifocal dimension rate for those lesions at ascending colon level. The diagnosis impact is immediate, and could allow to consider an update for boh endoscopic NICE and Kudo Pit Pattern classification, and good practice guidances for colonoscopic diagnosis. Better SSL detectability thus their systematic resection could have a long term effect in reducing both colon cancer rate and interval cancer
Ovarian cancer is the third most common gynecological malignancy worldwide. Because of late, aspecific symptoms, the disease is usually diagnosed at an advanced stage. Most patients experience recurrence and die as a result of the disease within 5 years. Treatment is a combination of surgical debulking and systemic administered chemotherapy. Intra-peritoneal (IP) chemotherapy with is currently considered the most effective treatment. In patients with at least an optimal surgical debulking, this leads to an improvement in life expectancy from 50 to 66 months. IP administration of chemotherapeutic agents is still not common practice. Furthermore recent studies revealed that cancer cells express a variety of tumor antigens, which can be targeted by the immune system. Also ovarian cancer shows evidence of a role for the immune system in clinical outcome. Novel insights into the mechanism of action of chemotherapy indicate that the efficacy of chemotherapeutic interventions are dependent on the modulation of the immune system. The impression exists that since IP chemotherapy is used, relatively more recurrences outside the abdominal cavity are observed. As of yet, no studies have described pharmacokinetics and pharmacodynamics of IP administered cisplatin and paclitaxel in the blood circulation. The investigators propose to study the use of this aspiration fluid from the IP cavity as a biomarker for the efficacy of chemotherapy intervention, monitor the effect of chemotherapy on IP tumor cells in the peritoneal cavity and monitor the effect of chemotherapy on immune cells present in the IP cavity. As well the investigators propose to correlate the presence and amount of tumor cells in peritoneal fluid with the debulking efficacy and CA 125 levels. Secondary to this the investigators intend to determine the pharmacokinetics of cisplatin and paclitaxel when administered in the IP cavity in the central circulation (plasma) as well as in the peritoneal fluid. In this observational explorative study women, aged younger than 70 years, who will receive standard IP chemotherapy for advanced epithelial ovarian cancer, who are in an adequate physical and biochemical state to receive chemotherapy are included. Immunological cell counts, tumor marker, immunological cell pathway activation and plasma concentrations of cisplatinum and paclitaxel in venous blood and in fluid aspirated from the abdominal cavity will be measured.
This phase II trial studies the side effect of busulfan, fludarabine phosphate, and post-transplant cyclophosphamide in treating patients with blood cancer undergoing donor stem cell transplant. Drugs used in chemotherapy, such as busulfan, fludarabine phosphate and cyclophosphamide work in different ways to stop the growth of cancer cells, either by killing the cells, by stopping them from dividing, or by stopping them from spreading. Giving chemotherapy such as busulfan and fludarabine phosphate before a donor stem cell transplant helps stop the growth of cells in the bone marrow, including normal blood-forming cells (stem cells) and cancer cells. Sometimes the transplanted cells from a donor can make an immune response against the body's normal cells (called graft-versus-host disease). Giving cyclophosphamide after the transplant may stop this from happening. Once the donated stem cells begin working, the patient's immune system may see the remaining cancer cells as not belonging in the patient's body and destroy them.
The main purpose of this study is to evaluate the safety of the study drug prexasertib in combination with ralimetinib in participants with advanced or metastatic cancer.